Amparo (name)

Amparo is a Portuguese and Spanish word that means refuge or shelter (and in a broader sense, protection). Several places in the Iberian Peninsula and in Latin America are named Amparo, some associated with Our Lady of the Refuge (Portiiirdr dr.: Nossa Senhora do Amparo, Esp: Nuestra Señora del Amparo). Sometimes spelled Ámparo (in Spanish).

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Origin

On 24 February 1409, the Venerable Joan Gilabert Jofré of the Military Order of Our Lady of Mercy was en route to Valencia's Cathedral to deliver a Lenten sermon when he witnessed a mentally ill man being lynched. In response, his Order founded a hospice in 1410 with help from Roman Catholic confreres for the mentally ill under the invocation of Sancta dels Folls Doña Nostra i Desamparats Innocents (Our Lady of the insane and the innocent; sometimes translated as Our Lady of the forsaken),^[1] whose goal was to help people with mental illness. It has been claimed that this was the first psychiatric hospital in the world.^[2]^[3]

Due to the famine of the period and the high rate of orphans due to the plague, the streets were filled with orphans. The hospice was soon expanded to assist orphans and foundlings, many the result of the plague.^[4]

People with the name

Given name

Amparo Acker-Palmer (born 1968), Spanish biologist
Amparo Alvajar (1916–1998), Spanish journalist, dramatist, and writer
Amparo Arozamena (1916–2009), Mexican actress
Amparo Arrebato (1944–2004), Colombian dancer
Amparo Baró (1937–2015), Spanish actress
Amparo Cabanes Pecourt (born 1938), Spanish academic and politician
Amparo Caicedo (born 1965), Colombian sprinter
Amparo Cuevas (1931–2012), Spanish Roman Catholic seer
Amparo Custodio (1918–1993), Filipino comedian and actress
Amparo Dávila (born 1928), Mexican writer
Amparo Garcia-Crow, Mexican-American filmmaker
Amparo Grisales (born 1956), Colombian actress
Amparo Illana (1934–2001), wife of Spanish politician Adolfo Suárez
Amparo Iturbi (1898–1969), Spanish concert pianist
Amparo Lim (born 1969), Filipino badminton player
Amparo Llanos (born 1965), Spanish musician
Amparo Menendez-Carrion (born 1949), Uruguayan-Ecuadorian academic
Amparo Montes (1920–2002), Mexican singer
Amparo Moraleda Martínez (born 1964), Spanish business executive
Amparo Muñoz (1954–2011), Spanish actress
Amparo Noguera born 1965), Chilean television and film actress
Amparo Ochoa (1946–1994), Mexican singer-songwriter
Ámparo Otero Pappo (1896–1987), Cuban milliner honored as Righteous Among the Nations
Amparo Pacheco (1924–2017), Spanish actress
Amparo Poch y Gascón (1902–1968), Spanish anarchist
Amparo Rivelles (1925–2013), Spanish actress
Amparo Rubiales (born 1945), Spanish politician
Amparo Rubín (born 1955), Mexican singer
Amparo Sánchez, Spanish musician
Amparo Soler Leal (1933–2013), Spanish actress
Amparo Valle (1939–2016), Spanish actress