The ''neocatólicos'' ("''neo–Catholics''", shorted to ''neos'') was a

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political tradition, faction or movement in late 19th-century Spain, emerged during the

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, akin to "Isabelline traditionalism" and "

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", fusing

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with the defence of the queen's dynastic legitimacy. Part of the 19th century Spanish counter-revolutionary though, and described as the "extreme right of the

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that had in Donoso Cortés their father and inspirator", the political struggle of the ''neos'', already coalesced by 1860, sided them with

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against the liberal advances and

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. After the 1868 Glorious Revolution (and overthrow of Isabella II) they tended to join the ranks of Carlism. Later in the 19th century, during the Restoration, politicians with a neo-Catholic background would enjoy, unlike old Carlists, some presence in the

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cabinets. By 1888 many of them helped to form the Integrist Party. ''Neos'' often attacked Krausists, deriding them as "Pantheists" and "anti-Catholics". Some neo-Catholic representatives include , Antonio Aparisi y Guijarro, , and .

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