Editing Leonardo Torres Quevedo (section)

==Personal life, religious beliefs and death==

On 16 April 1885 Torres married [[Luz Polanco y Navarro]] (1856–1954) in Portolín ([[Molledo]]). The marriage lasted 51 years and had eight children (3 sons and 5 daughters: Leonardo (born 1887, died 2 years old in 1889), Gonzalo (born 1893, died in 1965, who also became an engineer, and used to work as an assistant of his father), Luz, Valentina, Luisa, Julia (also died young), Joaquina, and Fernando).<ref>{{cite web | url=https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L7LY-NG1/leonardo-luis-inocencio-torres-de-quevedo-1852-1936 | title=Leonardo Luis Inocencio Torres de Quevedo|publisher=[[FamilySearch]] |access-date=28 September 2024}}</ref> After the death of his first son, in 1889, Torres moved with his family to [[Madrid]] with the firm intention of putting into practice the projects he had devised in previous years. During this time he attended the [[Ateneo de Madrid|Athenæum]] in the Spanish capital<ref>[https://www.ateneodemadrid.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Indice-Ateneistas-Ilustres-I.pdf ''Índice Ateneístas Ilustres I''.] Ateneo de Madrid.</ref>  and the literary gatherings at the {{Interlanguage link|Café Suizo|es|Café_Suizo}}, but generally without participating in debates and discussions of a political nature. He lived for many years in {{Interlanguage link|Calle de Válgame Dios|es|Calle_de_Válgame_Dios}} nº 3.<ref>González Redondo, Francisco A.; González Redondo, Amor (1994). ''Actas del I Simposio'' ''«Leonardo Torres Quevedo: su vida, su tiempo, su obra»''. Amigos de la Cultura Científica. ISBN 84-87635-11-3.</ref><ref name="-.bio-.-itefi.-."/>

Torres was a devout [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] who usually read the [[catechism]] and take [[Communion under both kinds|communion]] every [[First Fridays Devotion|First Friday]] of the month.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://catholicscientists.org/scientists-of-the-past/leonardo-torres/|title=Catholic Scientist of the Past: Leonardo Torres|publisher=[[Society of Catholic Scientists]] |access-date=2 September 2024}}</ref> He read the catechism as if intimately preparing himself for the next peaceful end that awaited him. His daughter Valentina told him on one occasion: "Dad, maybe you don't fully understand the mysteries that faith offers us, just as I don't understand your inventions either" and he responded affectionately: "Oh daughter, it's just that from God to me there is an infinite distance!". Once the [[Spanish Civil War]] began, his daughter Luz was arrested by the militia, and the family had to resort to the fact that Torres was a Commander of the [[Legion of Honour]] to save her life, with the intervention of the French Embassy included. In his last moments, his family managed to have the [[Sacraments of the Catholic Church|sacraments]] administered to him despite the difficulties due to religious persecution. At the moment of receiving the extreme unction, he pronounced his last words: "Memento homnia, quia pulvis eris et in pulverem reverteris" ("Remember, man, you are dust and to dust you will return").<ref>{{cite web|title=¿El ingeniero español más importante de la historia? Probablemente Torres-Quevedo, católico firme|date=2018-12-07|author=Alfonso V. Carrascosa|work=Religión en Libertad|url=https://www.religionenlibertad.com/ciencia_y_fe/603685907/AQuien-fue-el-ingeniero-espanol-mas-importante-de-la-historia-Probablemente-Torres-Quevedo.html|access-date=23 August 2024}}</ref> On 18 December 1936, after a progressive illness, Torres died at his son Gonzalo's home in Madrid, in the middle of the Civil War, ten days before his eighty-fourth birthday.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/sevilla/abc.sevilla/1937/01/02/007.html |title = Obituario en el diario ABC de Sevilla |publisher = Diario ABC |date = 2 January 1937 |access-date = 16 February 2012 }}</ref> He was initially buried in the [[Cementerio de la Almudena]], and later removed in 1957 to the monumental [[Saint Isidore Cemetery]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Unidad documental simple 46 – Copia sin firma de la carta a José María de Cossío con el encargo del director de que represente a la Academia en la misa funeral y en el traslado de los restos mortales de Leonardo Torres Quevedo desde el cementerio de la Almudena a la sacramental de San Isidro|work=Real Academia Española|date=1957-01-11|access-date=2024-08-29|url=https://archivo.rae.es/copia-sin-firma-de-la-carta-a-jose-maria-de-cossio-con-el-encargo-del-director-de-que-represente-a-la-academia-en-la-misa-funeral-y-en-el-traslado-de-los-restos-mortales-de-leonardo-torres-quevedo-desde-el-cementerio-de-la-almudena-a-l}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Cementerio Sacramental de San Isidro de Madrid. Semana de la Ciencia 2020|date=2020-11-12|url=https://cementeriodesanisidro.com/2020/11/12/semana-de-la-ciencia-2020/|access-date=2023-07-23|archive-date=2023-07-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230723184702/https://cementeriodesanisidro.com/2020/11/12/semana-de-la-ciencia-2020/|url-status=live}}</ref>