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PEDRO APARICI ORTÍZ
(Aielo de Malferit 1762- Valencia 1829)

Son of well-placed farmers, he earned a law degree in 1787 and settled in Valencia.

In 1792 he was a member of the EDB Government of the Bar.

In 1796 he won by opposition the position of civil rapporteur in court and in 1810 was elected the first of the four alternate members.

In January 1811 he traveled to Cadiz to replace a deputy and was elected secretary of the Parliament there.

EOn June 9 of1811 in Cadiz he intervened in favor of the abolition of the feudal courts.

Two years later, he pronounced a famous speech in which he declared that he considered illegal the Valencians territorial lordships, whose origins dated back to the expulsion of the Moorish people two centuries ago and considered null the “cartas pueblas” (municipal charters).

To give more weight to his dissertation he exemplified this with demographic, social and economic data of his village, Aielo.

His speech is a document of great interest to the history of Spain during the Liberal Revolution and therefore widely cited by historians.

With the restoration of absolutism in 1814, Pedro Aparicio, disenchanted, departed from public life and never intervened again in politics.

He died in Valencia on 25 July 1829.

MIGUEL FERRÁNDIZ BATALLER
(Aielo de Malferit 1877 – Ontinyent 1962)

Teacher, poet and teacher, he wrote numerous works of poetry and pedagogical theory. The latter include his award-winning work “Schools of the Ave Maria of the Father Manjón” (Award at the Pedagogical Contest of the Valencian Regional Exhibition 1909) and “Why the teacher instructs more than they educate?” (Awarded in Seville in 1910).

In the second decade of the twentieth century, after having worked as a teacher in different cities of Spain, he was given a post in Atzeneta de Albaida where in addition to his teaching he was deputy mayor. There he began to stand out for his innovative ideas in the teaching of Valencian and what is now called “Environmental Awareness”. In Atzeneta he would write “Cançons d’amor i per a ronda”.

He used to enter all poetry competitions and the Floral Games of the time, being the winner of many of them: Torrent, Benimaclet, Riba-Roja, Manises, Xàtiva, Valencia.

He is the author of hymns of the patrons the Holy Christ of Poverty and San Engracio Martyr. The hymn to the Blessed Christ was written in 1934, on the occasion of the centennial celebration of the Holy Christ, the music was composed by the organist from Aielo José Ramón Juan Cerdá.

On April 19 of 1932, he returned to Aielo de Malferit as a teacher, where he met Manuel Bermudez and Leonardo Carreres. A great lover of history of Aielo, he used to organize trips with his students around the village to find prehistoric remains. With their findings he organized a small museum at school with fossils, arrowheads, tools, etc.

The Republican government forced him to retire in 1937. After the Civil War, in 1941, he returned to work. In 1943, at the age of 66, he sought voluntary retirement.

He spent the last years of his life in the Hospital nuns of Ontinyent dedicated to writing poetry of religious inspiration.

His commitment to the village was recognized in 1975 with the dedication of a street to his name.

LEONARDO CARRERES LIÑANA
(Mogente 1881 – Valencia 1971)

He founded the School Mutual Society, created the School Library and the Museum of schoolwork as well as promoting and achieving that the construction of the School Group and graduation of unitary schools was carried out.

Leonardo Carreres Liñana was teacher of Aielo de Malferit in two stages. The first as interim substitute teacher, from the 29th of October 1904 until the 14th of September 1911. The second stage, in tenure, lasted from the 11th of February 1916 until his retirement on the 2nd of March, 1951.

Leonardo prompted one of the largest educational reforms in Aielo de Malferit, reorganizing schools and student activities. He created the prize distribution of the school, one of the most solemn acts of the festivities. The impression made by his activity was so valued, that the Mayor, before the Local Board of Education, granted him the the Vote of Grace.

He organized field trips to the most important prehistoric sites “Cova la Fos”, “Molló de les Mentires”,where students gathered prehistoric objects, minerals and fossils for the School Museum. He was also concerned with the training of adults organizing a series of cultural conferences, where prominent personalities presented their knowledge.

He was secretary of the Conference of St. Vincent of Paul to help the poor, president of Catholic Action, the Vestry and the Nocturnal Adoration.

He was councilman and Mayor-President. He was one of the founders of the Agricultural Union of Aielo “Christ of Poverty” in which he held the position of secretary, without pay, until its dissolution.

He founded the Municipal Library with Ms. Ángeles Belda Soler, professor at the Institute. He was a literary and administrative correspondent of the Diario Levante in Valencia. He was responsible for the Rainfall Station and was correspondent for the Fabra Observatory of Barcelona for recording earthquakes. For many years he was a chair in the Committee on Festivities.

He founded the School Mutuality, which earned him obtaining another Vote of Grace, and several awards from the National Institute of Forecast. On the occasion of the creation by the Pastor Juan Sanchis Requena, of a night school for adults, of a particular character, Leonardo, he took charge of it, without receiving any compensation for his professional work. He also created the School Library and Schoolwork Museum. He promoted and managed to get carried out the construction of the School Group and the graduation of unitary schools.

He won countless awards and diplomas in various educational and literary contests. In the multitudinous academic ceremony held on the occasion of his retirement he won the first class Medal of Consistency.

“Mis queridos ayelenses: Mi edad y los achaques que la rodean no me permiten dialogar con vosotros. Esta es mi última lección, una más de las muchas que os he dado. He gastado lo mejor de mi vida en vosotros, trabajando para haceros hombres dignos de Dios y de España, aptos para la vida y para desempeñar los cargos que la sociedad había de exigir de vosotros.

No estoy arrepentido, estoy contento y orgulloso de haber sido maestro de Ayelo de Malferit, de haber dedicado mi vida a vosotros que tan bien me habéis correspondido. Azares de la vida me han separado de vosotros, cuando yo esperaba descansar de mis afanes en vuestra compañía y a la sombra del Santísimo Cristo de la Pobreza.

¡No Hay remedio! Estoy separado de vosotros, pero os tengo en mi corazón, sois mis hijos y os amo de verdad; os he formado, os he dirigido y me habéis correspondido.

En cambio, ahí os dejo mi herencia: una escuela que yo inicié, que se realizó por el noble desprendimiento de aquel gran patricio llamado don Bautista Aparici, y por el tesón de otro patricio, entonces alcalde, Miguel Colomer, dotada de un pequeño museo, biblioteca infantil y repleta de material escolar. En colaboración con una insigne ayelense, la señorita doña Ángeles Belda, fundamos la Biblioteca Municipal en la misma escuela.”

Leonardo Carreres

HILARIO MARTÍNEZ
(Aielo de Malferit 1905 – Barcelona 1983)

Spainish champion as a lightweight in 1923 and Spainish champion in 1934 as a welterweight.

Boxer who fought on 124 occasions between 1922 and 1938, with 66 wins (21 by K.O.), 45 defeats, 10 zero, and 1 no-contest (we do not know the result of 2 matches).

In 1923 he achieved the title of Champion of Spain as a lightweight, and in 1934 the Champion of Spain as a welterweight.

In August 1926 he moved to New York, where he competed in 19 fights, debuting at Madison Square Garden. He also fought in many other cities of the two Americas.

Every visit to his hometown became, logically, in a real event.

He was interviewed for the film “Juguetes rotos” (1966) (“Broken Toys”), in which Manuel Summers showed people who achieved fame in their day, but who nobody still remembered .