# Father Antonio Cabre — To Cuba and Back character guide

> Father Antonio Cabre in To Cuba and Back by Richard Henry Dana Jr..

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Antonio, young Father Cabre

**First appearance:** 0003-ii

## Snapshot

A young Cuban priest whose Catholic presence lets the narrator test how religion sits alongside slavery, empire, and the island's stalled political hopes.

## Who they are

He moves through the narrator's Cuban days as a representative of the Church in a society the narrator describes as politically and intellectually stagnant. Young for his office, he embodies an institution that outlasts regimes yet rarely challenges them. His exchanges with the narrator quietly measure the distance between moral teaching and colonial practice.

## Relationships

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/to_cuba_and_back_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_social_

Father Antonio Cabre is a Catholic priest the narrator meets and converses with, discussing religious and social matters in Cuba.

### [Le Grand](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/to_cuba_and_back_se/characters/le_grand)

_professional_

Father Antonio Cabre and Le Grand appear to be associates or colleagues, possibly in a religious or social capacity.

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/to_cuba_and_back_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_social_

Father Antonio Cabre is a Catholic priest the narrator meets and converses with, discussing religious and social matters in Cuba.

## In the story

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/to_cuba_and_back_se/chapters/v)

Antonio, a swarthy Spanish lad, serves as the servant responsible for the narrator's room, showing him around and fetching water and towels.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/to_cuba_and_back_se/chapters/vii)

Antonio is a servant at the hotel, involved in comedic miscommunication with a woman from the opera troupe.

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/to_cuba_and_back_se/chapters/viii)

Antonio is the narrator's servant who wakes him with a message from the bishop.

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/to_cuba_and_back_se/chapters/ix)

A young Jesuit in charge of mathematics and astronomy, with a spare frame and intellectual countenance, who shows the narrator the laboratory and observatory.

### [XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/to_cuba_and_back_se/chapters/xviii)

Young Father Cabre, professor of physics, is recognized in the choir at Belén.

### [Habits of the Cubans, Visit to the Bishop, and the Coolie Mart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/to_cuba_and_back_se/chapters/xxi)

The Bishop at Jesus del Monte, cordial and polite, discusses the Thirty Millions Bill and religious institutions.

### [The Cahawba — Her arrival — Last night in Havana — Leave-takings — On board the Cahawba — Getting underway — Last views of Cuba — Night at sea](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/to_cuba_and_back_se/chapters/xxiv)

Referred to as Antonio, the narrator pities him for his fear of conscription and inability to leave the island.

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