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From Gran Canaria we receive an interesting article from the current Official Chronicler of the town of Teguise, which in 2018 he wrote on the occasion of the 170th anniversary of the passage of Fr. Claret through Lanzarote.

This article is published in a compilation of articles that is published annually by the Board of Official Chroniclers of the Canary Islands. Specifically, it corresponds to number 14 (year 2018) of the book “Chronicles of the Canary Islands”. We offer only the article, because the book deals with many other topics that have nothing to do with what interests us on this page. (more…)

The well-known and renowned Catalan writer, lecturer, philosopher and theologian Francesc Torralba published in 2022 the volume of his doctoral dissertation on what will be the Gloria façade of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona[1]. The temple is an authentic monument of spirituality in stone, which honours Antonio Gaudí, the architect of God, and enriches all of us who have visited it and the many who will be able to contemplate it later once it is inaugurated. With the language of stone, light and music, Gaudí has ​​been able to bring the message of the gospel to everyone, believers or non-believers.

Here we are interested in fixing our gaze on a slender image of Fr. Claret that may perhaps go unnoticed by the distracted tourist. It is placed outside the Expiatory Temple. It can be seen by standing at the foot of the Passion façade from the sidewalks of Mallorca Street. By Gaudí’s own will, it is the first of the other images of Catalan saints that were successively placed on the right side and at half the height of the wall surrounding the sanctuary. In Gaudí’s intention, this makes it a lasting pulpit where the suggestive word of art, sharp and seductive, preaches to those who pass by. The image was placed in the place where it is currently located on November 9, 1997, the day of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica, on the occasion of an “Aplec” (Meeting) of the Claretian Family[2]. (more…)