Clavijero is a dark figure of the Rosist Santa María de Torregrises: an ex-Jesuit in an old cassock, with a will of steel, who answers no longer to Rome but to himself. He bears the self-conferred rank of captain general of what remains of the Society of Jesus on these shores.
| Type | Character |
| Spanish entry | Clavijero |
His bearing recalls an older Bertrando, with grayer hair and more ornate gestures.
Activity
- He works from a printing press the regime’s men cannot fully control, probably heir to the presses of the Niños Expósitos (Foundlings). There he combines the alliance the Society perfected over three centuries: movable type, propaganda and doctrine. The printed sheet is his weapon.
- In the conspiratorial fabric of the Rosist uchronia he represents the clerical wing that neither Colonel Carmín nor the Unitarians have managed to bend; he skirts the federal regime without submitting.
- His connection to Father San Miguel suggests the Jesuits of Torregrises form a longer network than it appears, a chain of loyalties that exceeds ordinary chronology and that the civil authority cannot map.