Joan Aguiló i Pinya

Joan Aguiló i Pinya (* 1860 in Palma , † 1924 in Manacor ) was a Spanish Catholic pastor. He achieved local importance as an autodidactic archaeologist and writer.

Life

He was ordained a priest in 1887 and worked as a pastor in Manacor on Mallorca . After a farmer discovered the floor mosaic of an early Christian basilica on the Son Peretó estate between Manacor and San Llorenc in 1908 , Joan Aguiló i Pinya purchased the site and began excavating the Son Peretó basilica in 1912 . In the course of the excavations, he acquired a collection of archaeological finds and, above all, floor mosaics.

In addition, he worked as a writer. He wrote works that were strongly influenced by religion such as L´ángel de Nazaret and a biography of Saint Catalina Tomàs .

After his death, the archaeological collection became the property of the City of Manacor and is now exhibited in the Manacor Historical Museum .

Publications (selection)

• Poetry . Palma 1903.
• L'àngel de Nazareth . Felanitx 1910.
• Llibre de la vida de NS Jesu Crist . Felanixt 1914.

literature

• Perlas y Cuevas December 24, 1983, p. 27 ( digitized version ).
• Enric Bou: Nou diccionari seixanta-dos de la literatura catalana . 2000, p. 11.
• Axel Thorer: Mallorca. Lexicon of island secrets . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-455-50006-6 , p. 12.