Daniel Lucas (Ebrary)
Daniel Lucas | |
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| 1st Sovereign Protector of Ebrary | |
| Assumed office 15 June 1983 | |
| President |
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| Preceded by | Office established Jacobo VI as King of Ebrary |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 1964–1966 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 27 Feb 1936 |
| Citizenship | Ebrarian |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Egschwil Christian University |
| Occupation | Pastor, politician |
Daniel Gio Lucas (born 27 February 1936) is an Ebrarian Christenist pastor, revolutionary, and the first and current Sovereign Protector of Ebrary, in office since 1983.
Early life
Lucas was the third child born in the small village of Dubros, in northern Opa Province, to Gulielmo Lucas and Maria Ferrero. He had two older brothers, and two younger brothers and a younger sister. His father was of Ebraricized Vorstish descent while his mother was of mixed Ebrarian and Vorstish ancestry. His father was a traveling salesman and veteran of the Ebrarian Republican Army in the Ebrarian Civil War and his mother was a homemaker. Lucas's father was raised in the Church of Ebrary but did not attend church, and his mother was a devout Christenist and regularly took Lucas and his siblings to church services. Neither Lucas's father nor mother spoke Vorstish, and Lucas did not learn the language himself until his late 30s.
Daniel Lucas attended Egschwil Christian University from 1955 - 1959, receiving a Bachelor's Degree in theology. Lucas married Anna (née Rodrigo) in 1960. They had two children together, a daughter Mariah (born 1962) and son Paulo (born 1963).
Early political and religious career
Lucas ran for office as a member of the Christian Social Movement in his home village of Dubros, winning a seat in the lower house (Chamber of Deputies) of the Parliament of the then-Kingdom of Ebrary. Lucas held this seat until 1966 when the Christian Social Movement was banned for subversive activities under the authority of the King, and Lucas was imprisoned for three years in a prison in northern Adansema. He was released after the monarch issued a blanket pardon of all members of the party, but one condition of this release was that those pardoned would never again run for political office in Ebrary.
Unable to return to politics, Lucas was able to find a spot in 1971 as a pastor of a small congregation of the Christenist Union of Ebrary in northern Laverna province. It was during this period in which Lucas began his prolific and controversial writings concerning politics, theology, and philosophy. This era of the late 60s and into the 70s was known as the 4th Great Rebirth, an era of increased religious fervor in Ebrarian society, and Lucas's writings became exceptionally influential during this time. He was jailed for six months in 1974 for sedition, and found guilty and sentenced to time served.
Leader in the Dominionist movement
During his time in prison, Lucas met fellow prisoner Jacobo Castello. Castello had previously been an activist as part of the Christian Social Movement, but had been jailed for four years as an accessory in the failed assassination of the head of the Ebrarian Secret Police. After leaving prison, Lucas and Castello both became prominent figures in the Christian Dominionist movement which taught the primacy of Biblical law, and opposed the secular Ebrarian monarchy and foreign influence. The dominionists, fueled by the 4th Great Rebirth, gained in power and influence. Lucas and Castello founded the Christian Good Governance Society, the most prominent of Dominionist organizations. However, a large number of other groups were also influential, and the dominionists also found allies in the embattled Ebrarian labor movement.