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En este espacio se almacenan las noticias relacionadas con el CESC.

A traveling image

This beautiful baroque image of Saint Anthony of Padua has recently arrived in Vic. The said image was in the meeting room of the Provincial Government of Euskal Herría, in Bilbao. It was considered to be a gift from Elizabeth II to Fr. Claret, although no documentation has been found up to now proving the exact date and place of the delivery of such a gift. We only have the testimony of some of our eldest missionaries, whereby it appears photographed on page 315 of the book “San Antonio María Claret en el País Vasco” (Saint Anthony Mary Claret in the Basque Country), written long ago by Josu María Alday, cmf. (more…)

New issue of Studia Claretiana

The latest volume of Studia Claretiana has just come out, it can be consulted in the “Magazines” section of this website. In this volume of Studia Claretiana, the XXXVII of the collection, the reader will find nine contributions to the “Studies” section, followed by three “Notes”, and the usual “Claretian Bibliography – 2022”, provided by the General Secretariat of the Claretian Missionaries at the beginning of each year.

In the first block, as a heading, we have a reflection by Superior General Mathew Vattamattan, CMF, on the closing of the “Clotet Year”.

We continue in the “Studies” section with a work by the Director of CESC Juan Carlos Martos Paredes, CMF on the same figure, Fr. Clotet. It puts in its place the trajectory of this unique Claretian.

Next, Dr. Maite Godayol Puig (Contemporary History), tells us about the education of children in Central Catalonia in the 19th century. Come this work to contextualize the own trajectory of Fr. Clotet.

The works of Xavier Moral (linguist and Head of the Area for the Promotion of Catalan Sign Language of the Generalitat) and Ramon Ferrarons (writer, author of the first general and etymological dictionary of Catalan sign language), place Clotet as an outstanding figure in Catalan sign language. (more…)

Claret and the Conciliar Seminary of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

We are presenting the article entitled “Codina y los jesuitas en el Seminario conciliar (1852-1868)” (Codina and the Jesuits in the Conciliar Seminary) by Fr. Agustín Castro sj, about the arrival of the Jesuits at the Las Palmas Conciliar Seminary with Bishop Buenaventura Codina, and the influence of Fr. Claret in that decision.

Let’s look at the information that appears in this article about how the Bishop of the Canary Islands, a friend and collaborator of Fr. Claret, first tried to entrust the seminary to the Claretian missionaries, who, however, did not accept as they were still few in number due to being in their foundational period… (more…)

Claret weaver in Las Palmas

We are publishing here a fact found in a book printed in the Canary Islands. Indeed, on page 51 of “Apuntes históricos del Hospital de San Martín” (Historical notes of the Hospital of San Martín), by Rev. Fr. EPIFANIO GARCÍA, Paúl missionary, printed in the Salesian Professional Schools of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and published in Las Palmas in 1929, appears the nice piece of news about Fr. Claret teaching the nuns of the Hospital of San Martín de Las Palmas how to weave, during his missionary journey around the Islands in the years 1848-1849. It was a practical way of obtaining income for the poor coffers of that charitable institution, visited by the saint.

There is still an old cape of the Virgen del Pino, the first green cape of the Patroness of the diocese, which had been embroidered by the Daughters of Charity of the Hospital of San Martín in 1860. (more…)

An odd label

On the shelves of the library and the Archive of the CESC in Vic, we occasionally come across some tasty surprises. The one that we are presenting here arouses curiosity, in addition to its extreme simplicity, for being the second found so far among the books used by Fr. Claret. The first label, identical to this one, is found in the book by J. Balmes, El protestantismo comparado con el Catolicismo en sus realizaciones con la civilización europea (Protestantism compared to Catholicism in its achievements with European civilization), volume II, (4th ed.), Barcelona, 1867. This was found by Fr. Joan Sidera in “Arxiu Claret” III, p. 65. And we keep it in the CESC.

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