Miquel d'Esplugues

Miquel d'Esplugues (born 1870 in Esplugues de Llobregat ; died 1934 in Barcelona ) was the religious name of the Catalan writer and Capuchin Pere Campreciós i Bosch .

Miquel d'Esplugues was orphaned at the age of six. He studied humanities at the seminary in Barcelona and became a Capuchin in 1887 . He later taught philosophy (1892) and theology (1898). In 1893 he was ordained a priest. As advisor and vicar in capite of the Capuchin Province of Navarre and Catalonia , in 1900 he achieved the restoration of the old Catalan province. From 1905 to 1915 and 1918 to 1921 he was Provincial Vicar of the Catalan Capuchin Province.

In 1907 d'Esplugues founded the journal Estudios Franciscanos (Franciscan Studies) and in 1925 Criterion , the first Catalan philosophy journal .

Politically, he was closely associated with the Catalan Lliga Regionalista party and its initiator Francesc Cambó . He also established the Catalan Biblical Foundation of which he was President.

Works

• Nostra Senyora de la Mercè. Estudi de psicologia ètnico-religiosa de Catalunya (1916). (in Catalan)
• Sant Francesc de Sales, esperit i màximes (1906). (in Catalan)
• Four volumes of commentaries on the Lord's Prayer (1920–1923). (in Catalan)
• Three volumes from the collection of religious philosophy (1924–1927). The third volume is titled La vera efígie del Poverello (The True Story of Poverello ), and it is about Francis of Assisi . (in Catalan)
• El missatge d'Israel: Israel, Jesús, Sant Pau (1934). (in Catalan)

bibliography

• A. Botti: La Spagna e la crisi modernista. Cultura, società civile e religiosa tra Otto e Novecento , Morcelliana, Brescia, 1987, pp. 141-148. (in Italian)