Adémar Puyal Cisneros

In this Creeperian name, the first or paternal surname is Puyal and the second or maternal family name is Cisneros.

Saint Cardinal Adelantado Adémar Puyal Cisneros O.C.C.
Bishop and Captain General of La'Victoria
A painting of Puyal Cisneros, c. 1870s.
Church	Creeperian Catholic Church
Diocese	La'Victoria
In office	13 June 1326 – 12 March 1343
Predecessor	Diocese established
Successor	Alfonso Santín Rodríguez
Other posts	Official Representative of the Pope Archbishop of Salvador
Orders
Ordination	1285 by Archbishop Felipe Guerrero Salinas
Consecration	1 March 1297 by Pope Bonifacio VIII
Created cardinal	11 September 1327 by Pope Juan XXII
Personal details
Born	c. 1264 Alqarya, Creeperopolis
Died	12 March 1343(1343-03-12) (aged 78–79) La'Victoria, Creeperopolis
Buried	Cathedral of La'Santa Victoria, La'Victoria, San Luís, Creeperopolis
Denomination	Creeperian Catholicism
Occupation	Priest, politician, military
Alma mater	Catholic University of Salvador
Motto	Guerra o Paz, Siempre con Dios
Coat of arms
1st Captain General of La'Victoria
In office 13 June 1326 – 12 March 1343
Monarch	Miguel I
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Augusto Mendoza Enríquez
Military service
Allegiance	Creeperopolis
Branch/service	Creeperian Army
Years of service	1321–1326
Rank	Ecclesiastic Commander
Battles/wars	Second War of Miguel I Zuwara Tikriqin 1st Jizanura 2nd Jizanura Almadinat Almuqadasa Altal Agalkha Erbitba
Ordination history
Episcopal succession Bishops consecrated by Adémar Puyal Cisneros as principal consecrator Carlos Buenaventura Fuentes 15 June 1331 Pedro Velázquez Valdéz 31 January 1339

Adémar Francisco de Jiménez y del Nuevo Amanecer Puyal y Cisneros, O.C.C. (c. 1264 – 12 March 1343), was a Creeperian priest, politician, and military advisor. He lived his entire life during the Creeperian Crusade-era (1231–1345) of Surian history, being considered one of the most important figures of the later years of the era.

Puyal Cisneros became a priest in the Creeperian Catholic Church at the age of 21, eventually becoming consecrated as the Archbishop of Salvador by Pope Bonifacio VIII in 1297. In 1321, he was appointed by Pope Juan XXII as the Official Representative of the Pope for King Miguel I during his final war against the Caliphate of Deltino, against which Creeperopolis was engaged in a war with dating back to 1231. After the Creeperian victory at the Siege of Almadinat Almuqadasa in 1326, he was appointed as Bishop and Captain General of La'Victoria by Miguel I. He was appointed by the Pope as a cardinal in 1327, after which, he retired from his service as a military advisor to the King. He served as Bishop and Captain General until his death in March 1343, the same month that Miguel I began the Creeperian–Jakizi War, the final war of the Creeperian Crusade which ended in 1345.

Pope Innocento VI beatified Puyal Cisneros in 1353 and canonized him as a Saint in 1355. He continues to be recognized by the Creeperian Catholic Church as a Saint, where he is referred to as San Adémar (Saint Ademar). He is credited with establishing the modern-day city of La'Victoria on top of the ruins of the Deltinian capital of Almadinat Almuqadasa during his term as Bishop and Captain General.

Early life

Adémar Francisco de Jiménez y del Nuevo Amanecer Puyal y Cisneros was born in 1264. His parents were Alfonso Carlos de Jiménez Puyal y González and María Eva Fátima Concepción Cisneros y Juárez de Puyal. He was born in Alqarya, the town where 100–200 Creeperian Catholics were martyred by the Caliphate of Deltino thirty-three years prior in 1231. His grandfather, Salvador Puyal Menéndez, was reportedly one of those martyred in Alqarya. He was given the middle name "del Nuevo Amanecer" by his parents because they believed that he would be part of a new generation of Creeperans free from Deltinian oppression. When he was ten years old, his family moved to Salvador, the capital city of Creeperopolis.

Early ecclesiastical career

When he was seventeen years old, he entered the Catholic University of Salvador and studied to become a priest in the Creeperian Catholic Church. He completed his studies in 1285 and was ordained by Felipe Guerrero Salinas, the Archbishop of Salvador.

He served as a chaplain for Creeperian soldiers in Salvador from 1285 until 1289, when he was made the pastor of a church in the southern parts of the city. The exact church he was the pastor of is unknown. He served as pastor from 1289 until 1293, when he was transferred to another church where he also served as pastor. He was the pastor of the Iglesia de San Felipe in western Salvador from 1293 until 1297.

Archbishop of Salvador

On 15 February 1297, Guerrero Salinas died and the position of Archbishop of Salvador became vacant. Puyal Cisneros was selected by Pope Bonifacio VIII to assume the position of archbishop, most likely because of his family connection to a known martyr of Alqarya. Puyal Cisneros was consecrated as archbishop on 1 March 1297 at the Basilica of San Felipe.

Official Representative of the Pope

Miguel I and Puyal Cisneros.

Bishop and Captain General of La'Victoria

Puyal Cisneros oversees construction of the Cathedral of La'Santa Victoria.

Bishops consecrated by Puyal Cisneros

Bishop	Consecrated	Diocese
Carlos Alfonso Buenaventura Fuentes (?–1338)	15 June 1331	San Miguel
Pedro de San Felipe Velázquez Valdéz (1289–1350)	31 January 1339

Personal life

Puyal Cisneros has two brothers and three sisters: Eva (1259–?), Adán (1261–?), Anabela (1265–1342), María (1267–1296), Xosé (1270–1327), and Isabela (1272–?). His brother Xosé became a priest after him in 1291 and succeeded him as Archbishop of Salvador in 1297, where he served until his death in 1327.

Allegations of having children

Puyal Cisneros never married and did not have any children. During the Twenty Years' War, Adolfosburgish Protestant leader and reformer Gustavo Hidalgo Suaréz sought to discredit the clergy of the Creeperian Catholic Church, which included Puyal Cisneros. Hidalgo Suaréz fabricated a story where, during the fall of Almadinat Almuqadasa, Puyal Cisneros raped several Deltinian women, some of whom bore him children. The story also alleges that Puyal Cisneros secretly married one of the women named Noora al-Tabet in order to legitimize a child she bore him. The story was denounced by the Church and subsequently suppressed. The story was even denounced by José Banér Duarte and Pedro Suaréz Faca, two San Luísian Protestant leaders and reformers.

During the First Parliamentary Era, some members of the Liberal Party (PL) supported the belief that Puyal Cisneros had illegitimate children, most notably Prime Ministers Fidel Moreno Dávalos (1618–1636) and Orlando Moreno Hidalgo (1725–1749), while some only questioned the presumption that he had no children. After the fall of the First Parliament in 1771, the belief that Puyal Cisneros had children was suppressed by King Manuel III.

The belief was revived during the Second Parliamentary Era by politicians of the Creeperian Socialist Party (PSC) and the Creeperian Social Communist Party (PCSC), and to a lesser extent, the National Liberal Party (PLN). Leftist politicians Édgar Cazalla Beldad, Joel Lacasa Campos, and Mariano Alcocer Fraga all notably expressed their belief that Puyal Cisneros had illegitimate children from women he raped during the fall of Almadinat Almuqadasa in an effort to tarnish the image of the Church and its clergy. Following the Imperial Council's victory in the Creeperian Civil War in 1949, the belief that Puyal Cisneros had children was again suppressed by Emperor Romero II, as it continues to be today. Independent historians have since discredited the belief that Puyal Cisneros had children.

Sainthood

Adelantado Cardinal Saint Adémar Puyal Cisneros O.C.C.
Bishop and Captain General of La'Victoria
Venerated in	Creeperian Catholic Church
Beatified	13 June 1353, Salvador, Creeperopolis by Pope Innocento VI
Canonized	13 June 1356, Salvador, Creeperopolis by Pope Innocento VI
Major shrine	Mausoleum of Adémar Puyal Cisneros
Feast	13 June
Attributes	Bishop's staff, mitre
Patronage	Soldiers, injured, dying, martyrs, politicians, La'Victoria, San Luís
Controversy	Allegations of having children, ordering and complicit of massacres
Influences	Alfonso I
Influenced	Juan Palafox Mendoza, Romero I

Ancestry

Ancestors of Adémar Francisco de Jiménez y del Nuevo Amanecer Puyal y Cisneros
16. Uwskar Pujal Yajue 8. Alfawnasu Pujal Umara 4. Salvador Puyal Menéndez 9. Mariaan Menenez Orbegon 2. Alfonso Puyal González 5. María González Hurtado 1. Adémar Puyal Cisneros 6. José Cisneros Molina 3. María Cisneros Juárez

See also

Creeperopolis portal Terraconserva portal

• Pedro Herrador Cestalles

Notes

Catholic Church titles
New diocese	Bishop of La'Victoria 1326–1343	Succeeded by Alfonso Santín Rodríguez
New diocese	Official Representative of the Pope 1321–1326	Diocese abolished
Preceded by Felipe Guerrero Salinas	Archbishop of Salvador 1297–1321	Succeeded by Xosé Puyal Cisneros
Political offices
New office	Captain General of La'Victoria 1326–1343	Succeeded by Augusto Mendoza Enríquez
Military offices
New command	Ecclesiastic Commander 1321–1326	Command abolished