Jose Marti
1853 – 1895 Cuban Writer, independence leader
Cuban national hero initiated as a Mason in Madrid.
- Religion
- Deist
- Affiliations
- Documented Freemason, initiated in Spain.
Marti was initiated into Freemasonry in Spain in the early 1870s, in a Madrid lodge. Masonic ideals of brotherhood and liberty ran through his writing and his fight for Cuban independence. His membership is documented, though some details are debated.
In the timeline
- 1895 The Cuban War of Independence and Jose Marti central figure