 Complete the following phrase:  The young Manuel was brought up in a fervently Catholic ambience; in the 1890s he studied law in Barcelona and Madrid. By the turn of the century he returned to Alicante, launching his own career as a lawyer in 1897. Representing his clients in cases ranging from private to commercial law, he gradually grew to prominence and got engaged in politically sensitive cases, like a dispute over a forcibly closed local parish cemetery, speaking for the Alicantine San Nicolás community before the Supreme Court; in 1903 he was already one of the Alicante municipal judges. Manuel Sete married Joséfa Esplá Rizo 1870-1957, daughter of the Alicantine merchant marine captain and also a local Alicantine municipal counselor. The couple had 6 daughters 3 of them became nuns and a son, Manuel Sete Esplá, also a Carlist activist. A lawyer, in the 1930s he defended in court individuals charged with engagement in 