Abel Losada supports the request for a commemorative postage stamp for the anniversary of the birth of María Vinyals

The subdelegate of the Government, Abel Losada, comes from submitting a formal request before the State Philatelic Commission for Correos to issue a commemorative stamp on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the writer and precursor of feminism María Vinyals, which is celebrated on August 14, 2025.
Losada received in the Subdelegation of the Government the deputy mayor and councilor for Tourism of the City of Soutomaior, Silvia Cernadas, who was accompanied by the president of the neighborhood association Santa María, of Ponte Sampaio, José Luis López Carregal who, as promoters of this initiative, requested support from the subdelegate of the Government.
Cernadas and Carregal highlighted the importance of the figure of María Vinyals, “both for its historical significance and for the leader of feminism in a very early historical moment”, in addition to her facet of writer, cultural and social referent.
The deputy delegate thanked the “cultural activism” of the proposing entities and expressed the confidence that the proposal already presented in front of the Philatelic Commission can move forward. In this regard, he explained that #dealing with an advisory body of the Ministries of Transport and Finance in the issue of postage stamps. The Commission meets twice a year to make proposals for the following year. It is still pending at the second of these meetings, so the request was made on time.
Abel Losada considered the idea of Silvia Cernadas and José Luis López Carregal “very correct” and thanked the request for help in front of the Government Subdelegation. The deputy added that “it is an honor to lend a hand to see if this idea of a postage stamp comes through, and even more so after the current government of the Diputación, presided over by the Popular Party, has deleted the name of María Vinyals from the School of Equality, which was created in 2016 and which since then has been held annually in the castle of Soutomaior.”
Silvia Cernadas is a historian and a great connoisseur of the castle of Soutomaior, which was the central element of her doctoral thesis. This is how she approached the figure of María Vinyals, who has a prominent presence in one of the books she has published, “Women in the history of Galicia”.
María Vinyals y Ferrés was born in Soutomaior in 1875 and, according to the most reliable data, died in Paris in 1940, in full Nazi occupation. She was a writer, writer, social activist, feminist and suffraxist. In 1906 she became one of the first women of the Galician Royal Academy and was nicknamed in life “red marquise” for her social activism. The title of Marquise was acquired by marrying the Marquis of Ayerbe.