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After her husband’s death, she moved with her seven children to New York City and was well known for her entertainments. In 1892, she married a Spanish parliamentarian and moved to Europe, where her children were educated. Two paintings of her, painted by Francisco Masriera y Manovens are in the collection of the Museo del Prado in Madrid. When she was 14, she married Justo Rufino Barrios and immediately became the first Guatemalan First Lady in history to take office.Table of ContentsEarly life[edit]First Lady of Guatemala[edit]Death and legacy[edit]References[edit]Citations[edit]Bibliography[edit]Early life[edit]Francisca Aparicio y M\u00e9rida was born on 23 July 1858, in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala to Francisca Gregoria M\u00e9rida y Estrada and Juan Jos\u00e9 Aparicio y Lim\u00f3n and baptized the following day at the Catedral del Esp\u00edritu Santo de Quetzaltenango\u00a0[es]. She was the third child in the family of eleven children and the oldest daughter. Her father owned the Santa Cecelia coffee plantation, which contained 400,000 coffee plants, the largest privately-owned plantation in the Suchitep\u00e9quez Department and a second coffee farm which had 100,000 plants. During the uprising led by Miguel Garc\u00eda Granados against the President Vicente Cerna in 1871,Justo Rufino Barrios was stationed in Quetzaltenango and met the young girl. He became infatuated with her, but her parents, thinking she was too young, sent her to Guatemala City to the school run by Ursuline nuns, which catered to the upper classes in the country. Not giving up his pursuit, when Barrios was elected to the presidency in 1873, he won-over the objections of her parents to his marriage proposal. Later, Barrios made her father governor of the Quetzaltenango Department, which gave him the authority to distribute the land in the area.First Lady of Guatemala[edit]On 24 July 1874 Aparicio married Barrios in a civil ceremony in her home town. According to custom, they were then married in a religious ceremony on 5 August 1874 at the Catedral del Esp\u00edritu Santo. A grand ball held to honor the couple took place amidst an earthquake which initially was believed would not be serious. The quake left around 200 people dead and destroyed or severely damaged six towns. In spite of her young age, Barrios entrusted Aparicio with the duties of state, placing her in charge of political and state functions both at home and abroad. They traveled extensively in the United States and Europe during his presidency and the couple had seven children: Elena (1875\u20131944), Maria de la Luz (1876\u20131949), Jose Ignacio (1877\u20131895), Maria Josefa (1878\u20131959), C\u00e1rlos (1880\u20131897), Justo Rufino, Jr. (1882\u20131909) and Julia Francisca (1884\u20131905). Within a few months of her youngest daughter’s birth, her husband was killed on the battlefield in 1885, while trying to unite the countries of Central America into a confederated state.  Francisca Aparicio y M\u00e9rida, Marquesa consorte de Vistabella by Francisco Masriera y Manovens, 1892Almost immediately after her husband’s funeral, de Barrios, who had inherited her husband’s fortune outright, set sail with her children for San Francisco. They remained in California briefly before moving to New York City. Around the same time, her parents also moved to New York to establish an office to facilitate distribution of his agricultural products in the United States. In New York, she bought the property located at 855 Fifth Avenue, which quickly became a gathering place for Spanish-American society figures of the city. She enjoyed entertaining in her opulent mansion, decorated with Latin American artworks, and was known for her dancing and skill with classical music. She also had a private opera and was known for engaging local artists for performances and lavish costume balls. Her entertainments were widely covered in the society press with descriptions of her gowns and extensive collection of jewelry.In 1891, accompanied by her mother and family, de Barrios traveled to Barcelona for the International Exposition. From Barcelona, they traveled to Madrid, where at a circus party, she met Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez de Roda, Marqu\u00e9s de Vistabella\u00a0[es], a Spaniard, whose family were from Granada. Roda was a member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies and the two saw each other often during the social season. They entered into an engagement and the following spring, on 21 April 1892, the couple married at de Barrios’s home on Fifth Avenue. A double service was performed with Hugh J. Grant, mayor of New York City performing the civil service and Archbishop Michael Corrigan performing the religious ceremony. When the family moved to Europe, Perry Belmont, a one-time Minister to the court of Spain, took over her house on Fifth Avenue. For the next several years, the family made their home traveling between Madrid, Biarritz and Paris. In June 1899, her father died in New York City. Six months later, in December 1899, the Marqu\u00e9s de Vistabella died suddenly while the couple was in Paris, leaving the Marquesa widowed for a second time.For the remainder of her life, the Marquesa de Vistabella’s daughter Elena was her constant companion. Elena never married. When the Marquis de Vistabella died, having no children himself, he designated his wife’s son Justo Rufino Barrios y Aparicio as his heir. When Justo died in 1909 in Paris, as he had no heirs and his mother had no more living sons, the title passed to her oldest daughter, Elena. Maria de la Luz, the second daughter, married Juan Alcal\u00e1 Galiano y Osma, the Count of Romilla\u00a0[es] Maria Josefa married D. Tom\u00e1s Terrazas y Azpeitia, Marquis de la Ensenada. In 1940, the Marquesa moved to Switzerland.Death and legacy[edit]The Marquesa died on 31 January 1943 in Bern, Switzerland.Francisco Masriera y Manovens painted two portraits of her, which are now in the collection of the Museo del Prado in Madrid. One is an oil on canvas painted in 1889. The other oil painting was completed in 1892.References[edit]Honorary titlesPreceded\u00a0byMar\u00eda Garc\u00eda Granados First Lady of Guatemala 1874\u20131885Succeeded\u00a0byCarmen Ram\u00edrezCitations[edit]Bibliography[edit]Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1887). History of Central America. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Vol. VIII. Vol.\u00a0III: 1801\u20131887. San Francisco, California: The History Company Publishers. OCLC\u00a0631068242.Barredo de Valenzuela, Adolfo; Cadenas y Vicent, Vicente de (February 1961). “Grandezas y T\u00edtulos concedidos por S. M. el Rey Don Alfonso XIII (Continuaci\u00f3n)”. Revista Hidalgu\u00eda (in Spanish). 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