Josep Torras i Bages

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Venerable
ShrinesTomb (St. Peter's Cathedral, Vic)
Ordination history of
Josep Torras i Bages
History
Priestly ordination
Date23 September 1871
Episcopal consecration
Date23 December 1899
The cathedral in Vic, where Josep Torras lived the last part of his life.

Josep Torras i Bages (Catalan pronunciation:

Catholic Catalan nationalism
.

Biography

Torras and the Catalan traditions

Josep Torras strongly criticized the

Santa Maria de Montserrat abbey.[2]

Torras was very interested in the study of the

Catalan cultural symbol, and encouraged others, like Josep Abril i Virgili and Jaume Raventós, to do so.[3] Based on good sense and wisdom, seny was perceived by Torras to originate in the traditional Catalan rural farm (casa pairal or masia). The life in the traditional non-urban setting with its frugality, hard work, and religious piety was the right ground for the development of the values and social norms embodied in the Catalan seny.[4]

Ecclesiastical work

In 1882 Torras became counselor to bishop of Barcelona J. M. Urquinaona. Specializing in conflict-solving among Catholics, he also was the censor of some newspapers that were compromised in certain inner troubles (procesos canónicos) of the Spanish Church at the time.

Years later, in 1888, Torras, after analyzing the growing secularization of Spanish society, wrote the book El clero en la vida social moderna in

integrist or reactionary position of the Catholic Church in Spain
, and sought to encourage the Spanish Catholic clergy to adapt to the spirit of the times and to focus on moderation and personal spiritual discipline, advice that went largely unheeded at the time.

Torras was promoted to become

Burgos in 1906 and Valencia in 1913, but he declined because he did not want to put a distance between himself and the mission he was committed to in the heart of Catalonia.[5]

Death and beatification process

Torras i Bages died in Vic in 1916.

His cause was formally opened on 21 April 1936, granting him the title of

venerable. As of now, only a miracle is needed to conclude the beatification process.[citation needed
]

Works

Most of his works have been published in compilations under the title Obres completes, his abundant correspondence, crucial for the understanding of certain issues surrounding Catalan nationalism, was finally published in 1998.

As of 2020, the most recent edition of his works, that of

archive.org (see § External links
).

See also

References

  1. ISBN 9780804715027
    .
  2. ^ Josep M. Fradera, Rural Traditionalism and Conservative Nationalism in Catalonia 1865-1900 Archived 2012-07-09 at archive.today
  3. ^ Carta del Bisbe de Vic a Jaume Raventós en aplegar els volums titulats Proses de bon Seny (Letter to Jaume Raventós) (in Catalan)
  4. JSTOR 3317655
    .
  5. ^ GER Torras i Bages - Biografia suelta Archived 2008-06-16 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Index ac status causarum beatificationis servorum dei et canonizationis beatorum (in Latin). Typis polyglottis vaticanis. January 1953. p. 128.

External links

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