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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 ti.li the dose of the war. On being discharged, Isidoro returned to Montehano on 6 December 1939 to resume his second year of philosophy. Transferred to the College of Le6n, where, after having 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 the Pontifical University of Salamanca, where he secured licentiateship in the– ology on 3 July 1946. His superiors now asked Fr Isidoro to specialise in ecclesiastical his– 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 the following Match he shifted his residence to Madrid in arder to collect archival material for his doctoral dissertati.on La cuestion re– ligiosa en las Cortes de Cadiz (1810-1813). On 1 September 1950 he was appointed lector of ecclesiastical history, patristics and other secondary subjects at the Theology College of Le6n. By the beginning of 1953 he was also able to give the finishing touches to the dissertation, and as he was readying himself to return to Rame for the de– fence, he was communicated the "Obedience" of Fr General, nominating him as a staff member of the Order's Historical Insci.tute. He joined the In– stitute on 31 May. He defended the dissertati.on on 13 June and with its partial publication, on 2 November 1956 he was officially conferred the title of doctor. At the Historical Insci.tute Fr Isidoro's assignment was to be on the editorial board of the review Collectanea Franciscana and in 1955 he was made its editor, a post he held ti.li 1967, for a period of 12 years. In the meantime on 19 November 1965 he had been entrusted with the direction of the In– stitute, a service he rendered ti.li 5 December 1971, consequent upon a re– confirmation in office on 26 November 1968. He was appointed General Archivist on 18 July 1970 and would undertake in three phases the transfer and the systematisation of the enti.re archives 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 Insci.tute, 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