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BIOGRAFIA 13 rupted as he was conscripted into the National army. It was to the front of Levant that the freshly recruited infantryman was posted. He was based there till the dose of the war. On being discharged, Isidoro returned to Montehano on 6 December 1939 to resume bis second year of philosophy. Transferred to the College of Le6n, where, after baving taken his solemn vows on 2 August 1941, he was ordained priest on 8 April 1944 while doing his third year of theology. In September of the same year he was sent to tbe Pontificai University of Salamanca, where he secured licentiateship in the– ology on 3 July 1946. His superiors now asked Fr Isidoro to specialise in ecclesiastica! bis– tory at the Gregorian University in Rome. Accordingly he reached Rome on 5 December 1946. On becoming licentiate on 26 June 1948, he enrolled for the doctorate. In tbe following Match be sbifted his residence to Madrid in order to collect arcbival materiai for his doctoral dissertation La cuestion re– ligiosa en /as Cortes de Cddiz (1810-1813). On 1 September 1950 he was appointed lector of ecclesiastica! bistory, patristics and other secondary subjects at the Theology College of Le6n. By the beginning of 1953 be was also able to give the finishing touches to the dissertation, and as he was readying himself to return to Rome for the de– fence, he was communicated the "Obedience" of Fr Generai, nominating him as a staff member of the Order's Historical Insci.tute. He joined the In– sci.tute on 31 May. He defended the dissertation on 13 June and with its partial publication, on 2 November 1956 he was officially conferred the title of doctor. At the Historical Institute Fr Isidoro's assignment was to be on the editoria! board of the review Col/ectanea Franciscana and in 1955 he was made its editor, a post he held till 1967, for a period of 12 years. In the meantime on 19 November 1965 he had been entrusted with the direction of the In– sci.tute, a service he rendered till 5 December 1971, consequent upon a re– confirmation in office on 26 November 1968. He was appointed Generai Archivist on 18 July 1970 and would undertake in three phases the transfer and the systematisation of the enti.re arcbives in the block of the Insci.tute, at its new premises by the Grande Raccordo Anulare. On 1 January 1978 when Fr Isidoro was named for the directorship of the Institute, it was the third time that he was serving as its President. This third term of office expired on 3 February 1981. From 1963 to 1969 he was