Francisco de Asís Vidal y Barraquer

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Francisco de Asís Cardinal Vidal y Barraquer
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Francisco de Asís Cardinal Vidal y Barraquer , in Catalan Francesc d'Assís Vidal i Barraquer , (born October 3, 1868 in Cambrils , Spain , † September 13, 1943 in Friborg , Switzerland ) was Archbishop of Tarragona .

Life

Early years

Francisco Vidal y Barraquer completed his philosophical and theological training in Barcelona , Tarragona and Madrid with the promotion of Doctor of Law from. He received on 17 September 1899, the sacrament of Holy Orders , and then worked as a counselor and staff of the diocesan court in Tarragona. From 1909 to 1913 he headed the administration of the Archdiocese of Tarragona as Vicar General .

Bishop and Cardinal

1913 Pope named him Pius X to the titular bishop of Pentacomia and Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Solsona . The episcopal ordination donated him on April 26, 1914 Antolín López Peláez , the Archbishop of Tarragona; Co- consecrators were Ramón Barberá y Boada , Apostolic Administrator of Ciudad Rodrigo , and Ramón Guillamet y Coma , Bishop of Córdoba . From 1914 to 1916 Francisco de Asís Vidal y Barraquer was Senator of the Kingdom of Spain. In 1919 Pope Benedict XV appointed him . as Archbishop of Tarragona, in 1921 he accepted him as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Sabina in the college of cardinals . Francisco de Asís Cardinal Vidal y Barraquer participated in the conclave of 1922 , which Pope Pius XI. chose.

Civil War and Exile

During the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera he defended the freedom of the Church and, like all bishops of the ecclesiastical province of Tarragona , maintained the use of the Catalan language in preaching and catechesis . In 1924 he refused to move to the metropolitan seat of Saragossa , just as he refused in 1926 to change the bishopric with the Bishop of Coria Pedro Segura y Sáenz or to go to Rome as a cardinal of the Curia . When the Spanish Republic was proclaimed in 1931 , he managed to prevent the looting and pillage of churches and monasteries in Catalonia . After Cardinal Segura, the Archbishop of Toledo, fled into exile, Francisco de Asís Vidal y Barraquer was elected Primate of Spain. Notwithstanding his friendship with President Niceto Alcalá Zamora , he tried to tone down the government's draft constitution on the rights of the Church, but this had little success. When revolutionary unrest broke out in Tarragona on July 21, 1936, Cardinal Vidal felt compelled to seek refuge with Eduard Toda i Güell in Poblet . After militia officers threatened him and his auxiliary bishop Manuel Borrás was murdered in Tarragona, the cardinal and his personal secretary were taken to Barcelona, ​​from where a ship of the Spanish navy took him to Italy. Cardinal Vidal stayed in the Farneta Charterhouse near Lucca until 1943 . While in exile, he tried to negotiate peace in the Spanish Civil War with Jean Cardinal Verdier , Archbishop of Paris . He asked for the Pope to intervene against the bombing of Catalan civilians by the nationalist air force, advocated the release of people who were held captive by the Republicans as well as the Franquists or were to be extradited to Germany by the Vichy regime, regardless of their political attitudes. He was one of only five Spanish bishops who refused to support General Francisco Franco and in 1937 did not sign the letter of the Spanish episcopate welcoming Franco's rise to power. In 1939 he took part in the conclave that Pius XII. elected to the Pope. His closeness to Catalonia, his good relations with republican circles and his refusal to support Franco prompted the Franco regime to forbid him from returning to his archbishopric. Even after Cardinal Vidal's banishment was lifted in the course of the Concordat in 1941, he remained in Italy. In 1943 the German occupation of Italy forced him to flee to the Swiss Charterhouse of La Valsainte .

Death and burial

The cardinal died on September 13, 1943 in Freiburg, Switzerland, and was buried in the church of the Carthusian monastery of La Valsainte. In 1978 his remains were transferred to the Tarragona Cathedral .

The Archdiocese of Tarragona commemorated Cardinal Vidal in 2013/2014 on the 70th anniversary of his death.

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predecessor Office successor
Antolín López Peláez Archbishop of Tarragona
1919–1943 		Manuel Cardinal Arce y Ochotorena
personal data
SURNAME Vidal y Barraquer, Francisco de Asís
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vidal i Barraquer, Francesc d'Assís (Catalan)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Tarragona
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambrils , Spain
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1943
Place of death Freiburg im Üechtland , Switzerland