Capuchin monastery of Sarrià

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Facade of the Church of the Capuchins of Sarrià

The Capuchin Monastery of Sarrià is a convent of the Capuchins , which was founded in Sarrià , today a part of Barcelona , in 1578 after a request by the Consell de Cent (former city government of Barcelona) and against the will of King Philip II .

history

Beginnings

View of Barcelona from the Capuchin Monastery in the Sarrià desert

After a request from the Consell de Cent , some Capuchins came to Barcelona from Italy . For the time being they lived at the chapel of Santa Madrona near Montjuïc . A little later they moved to Sant Gervasi de Cassoles , but in the same year they moved to the Sarrià desert ("desert" means an uninhabited place here). There was a chapel of St. Eulalia there , built in the 15th century. According to tradition, this was the birthplace of this martyr from Barcelona. So in 1578 the Capuchins were given this place so that they could build a monastery, the first Capuchin monastery on the Iberian Peninsula. It coexisted with the Montcalvari Monastery , which was also founded outside the walls of Barcelona. During the siege of Barcelona in the War of the Spanish Succession in 1714, the monastery was occupied by the army. The Capuchins were able to stay and fulfill their religious duties because the monastery was spared.

In 1835 the monastery was expropriated and dissolved in the course of the dismortment of Mendizábal . The land was acquired by the Italian Enrico Sisley. The transfer was legally questionable.

Restoration

After a few years, the Ponsich family from Sarrià gave the current land of the monastery to the Capuchins, where in 1887 the construction of the new monastery began. From 1900 it became the seat of the Provincial Curia and Study Center. It also became a cultural center that was very often visited by important intellectuals of the early 20th century in Catalonia. Among others , Josep Carner , Carles Riba , Jaume Bofill , Francesc Pujols and Francesc Cambó had a permanent relationship with the monastery . The monastery was also an important center of biblical studies with eminent experts such as Antoni M. de Barcelona or Marc de Castellví. Miquel d'Esplugues was President of the Catalan Bible Foundation. This foundation translated the original texts of the Bible into Catalan . This translation was made almost at the same time as the other translation into Catalan made by the monks of Montserrat and under the direction of Bonaventura Ubach . This tradition of biblical studies was continued, so that today's experts are also included, including Frederic Raurell , Enric Cortès and Jordi Cervera.

Miquel d'Esplugues founded the magazine Estudios Franciscanos in 1907 . He was also the first editor. This magazine is still in circulation today, interrupted only for a few years during the Spanish Civil War . Brother Miquel d'Esplugues founded Criterion in 1925 , the first Catalan journal on philosophy (1925–1936).

Interior of the Capuchin Church of Sarrià

In 1936 the monastery was burned and looted by the anarchist militia , but the neighbors helped save part of the library. In 1939 the process of restoring the monastery began under the direction of the architect Pere Benavent . The magazine Estudios Franciscanos was published again from 1948. The new editor was Basili de Rubí . Criterion was published again from 1959, but it was now just a collection of philosophical and religious subjects. Basili de Rubí was also its new director. For a short time the director was Àlvar Maduell. The collection was, in principle, intended to become a magazine, but the laws of the Francoist Minister Manuel Fraga Iribarne did not allow it, and the magazine was banned in 1969.

In the 1950s, Basili de Rubí founded the Franciscalia company . It was a society for the promotion of spirituality and culture. Many lay people worked with it, such as Roc Llorens, Josep Maria Piñol , Jordi Maragall or Tomás Carreras Artau .

In 1966 there was a meeting of students in the monastery, the Caputxinada . At that time, the Sindicat Democràtic d'Estudiants de la Universitat de Barcelona (SDEUB, Democratic Association of Students from the University of Barcelona ) was founded. The police are said to have surrounded the monastery for three days. This fact caused a lot of sympathy in Spain and internationally.

Under the altar of a chapel in an urn there are the remains of nine martyrs of the Capuchins of Sarrià from the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. A total of twenty-six Capuchins were murdered. The remains of the other seventeen martyrs have not yet been found. These martyrs were beatified on November 21, 2015 in the Barcelona Cathedral .

Today, the Monastery of Sarrià is the seat of the Ethnographic Museum of the Missions , the Hispanic-Capuchin Library and the Provincial Archives of the Capuchins of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands . In 2006 the city of Barcelona awarded him the Barcelona Medal of Honor .

Capuchins matter

Missionaries

Philosophers

historian

Theologians

Exegetes

Publications

Web links

Commons : Caputxins de Sarrià  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

bibliography

  • Barraquer Roviralta, Cayetano. Las casas de los religiosos in Cataluña, durante el primer tercio del siglo XIX . Barcelona. Imp. Altés. 1906 (2 volumes). (in Spanish)
  • Barraquer Roviralta, Cayetano. Los religiosos in Cataluña durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX . Barcelona. Imp. Altés. 1915–1917 (4 volumes). (in Spanish)
  • Basili de Rubí . Un sail de vida caputxina a Catalunya (1564-1664). Aproximació històrico-bibliogràfica . Barcelona, ​​Caputxins de Sarrià, 1978. (in Catalan)
  • Basili de Rubí. Els caputxins a la Barcelona del sail XVIII. Aproximació històrico-bibliogràfica . Barcelona, ​​Caputxins de Sarrià, 1984. (in Catalan)
  • Martí i Martí, CJ Estadística de la Província de Frares Menors Caputxins de Catalunya . 1900-1975. Barcelona. Cúria Provincial. 1975. (in Catalan)
  • Serra de Manresa, Valentí . Els framenors caputxins a la Catalunya del sail XIX. Represa conventual, exclaustracions i restauració (1814-1900) . Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Barcelona 1998. (in Catalan)
  • Serra de Manresa, Valentí. La Província de framenors caputxins de Catalunya: de la restauració provincial a l'esclat de la guerra civil (1900-1936) . Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya, Barcelona 2000. (in Catalan)
  • Serra de Manresa, Valentí. El Terç Orde dels Caputxins. Aportacions del laïcat franciscà a la història contemporània de Catalunya (1883-1957) . Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya. Barcelona. 2004. (in Catalan)
  • Serra de Manresa, Valentí. Els frares caputxins de Catalunya: de la Segona República a la postguerra, 1931-1942 . Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya. Barcelona. 2014. (in Catalan)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] Information about the monastery of the Capuchins of Sarrià on the website of the monasteries of Catalonia. (in Catalan)
  2. ↑ [2] "L'oculta història del desert de Sarrià" (The secret history of the desert of Sarrià). (in Catalan)
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. This article explains the problems of the magazine. (in Catalan) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / perso.wanadoo.es
  4. ↑ "Cinquanta espais amb història". Espais de Memòria in Barcelona. Monograph of the magazine Sàpiens [Barcelona], n. 92, June 2010, p.6-7. ISSN  1695-2014 . (in Catalan)
  5. ↑ The remains found correspond to the following brothers: Eloi de Bianya , Timoteu de Palafrugell, Vicenç de Besalú, Alexandre de Barcelona, Martí de Barcelona , Doreteu de Vilalba, Remigi del Papiol, Pacià Maria de Barcelona and Fèlix de Tortosa.