CARTA MECANOGRAFIADA POR ANTONIO MARIA MARCET POAL A RDO. JUAN BOADA. ESPAÑA. 1917

ANTONIO MARIA MARCET POAL

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SEE THE IMAGES TO CHECK THE REAL CONDITION OF THE LETTER THE IMAGES ARE PART OF THE DESCRIPTION LETTER TYPED BY ANTONIO MARIA MARCET ABAD OF MONTSERRAT TO THE REBEREND FATHER JOAN BOADA WRITTEN ON SEPTEMBER 22, 1917 PAPER WITHOUT TEARS OR DAMAGES THE LETTER CONSISTS OF 1 PAGE LETTER DATED SEPTEMBER 22, 1917 YELLOWED BY THE PASSAGE OF TIME HISTORICAL REVIEW ON ANTONIO MARIA MARCET POA MARCET POAL, ANTONIO. TARRASA (BARCELONA), 5.VII.1878 ? MONTSERRAT (BARCELONA), 13.V.1946. BENEDICTINE MONK (OSB), ABBOT OF MONTSERRAT FROM A WEALTHY FAMILY, HE ENTERED THE ESCOLANÍA DE MONTSERRAT IN 1886. IN 1894 HE WORE THE MONASTIC HABIT IN THE MONASTERY ITSELF AND PROFESSED THERE IN 1895 (SIMPLE PROFESSION) AND 1900 (SOLEMN PROFESSION) HE PURSUED AN ECCLESIASTICAL CAREER AT THE COLEGIO DE SAN JOSÉ DE ESPARREGUERA AND IN MONTSERRAT AND RECEIVED PRIESTLY ORDINATION IN 1902. WITH HIS COMPANIONS BUENAVENTURA UBACH AND GREGORIO SUÑOL, HE BECAME ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT GREGORIAN CHANT, IN WHOSE INTRODUCTION TO MONTSERRAT HE PLAYED AN IMPORTANT PART. AFTER HOLDING VARIOUS POSITIONS IN MONTSERRAT AND INTERVENING IN THE CREATION OF THE MONTSERRATINA MAGAZINE, OF WHICH HE WAS EDITOR, IN 1907, IN THE SUMMER OF THE SAME YEAR HE WAS APPOINTED CONSULTANT TO THE ABBOT GENERAL OF THE SUBIACO CONGREGATION, FOR WHICH HE HAD TO SETTLE, UNTIL 1912, IN THE SACRO SPECO OF SUBIACO, WITHOUT FORGETTING THE CONTACT WITH HIS MONASTERY: HE PUBLISHED IN THE MONTSERRATINA MAGAZINE A SERIES OF ARTICLES ON MONASTIC HISTORY, AND OTHERS OF A MORE LITERARY TONE, WHICH DEMONSTRATE HIS INTELLECTUAL STATURE AND HIS INTEREST IN CULTURAL ISSUES. . IN DECEMBER 1912 THE COMMUNITY OF MONTSERRAT ELECTED HIM COADJUTOR ABBOT, WITH FULL POWERS AND WITH THE RIGHT TO SUCCEED ABBOT JOSÉ DEÁS. HE TOOK POSSESSION OF HIS NEW POSITION IN JANUARY 1913 AND CARRIED OUT A FRUITFUL GOVERNMENT ACTION, ALONG THE LINES OF HIS PREDECESSORS MIGUEL MUNTADAS AND JOSÉ DEÁS, INSISTING ON RAISING THE CULTURAL LEVEL OF THE COMMUNITY AND IMPROVING THE MONASTIC BUILDINGS. HE WAS ESPECIALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE INCREASE IN THE LIBRARY, THE ARCHIVE, THE ART GALLERY AND THE BIBLICAL MUSEUM, FAVORED THE STUDIES OF THE MONKS ABROAD AND WAS A PATRON OF THE PUBLICATIONS THAT EMERGED IN THE MONASTERY, MANY OF THEM FROM THE PRINTING PRESS THAT HE HIMSELF HAD ESTABLISHED SPECIAL MENTION MUST BE MADE OF THE MAGAZINES VIDA CRISTIANA, ANALECTA MONTSERRATENSIA, CATALONIA MONASTICA AND MONTSERRAT. BUTLLETÍ DEL SANTUARI, VARIOUS COLLECTIONS OF RELIGIOUS BOOKS AND THE "BÍBLIA DE MONTSERRAT", DIRECTED BY BUENAVENTURA UBACH. HIS PROTECTION OF CATALAN CULTURE ATTRACTED THE ANIMOSITY OF GENERAL MIGUEL PRIMO DE RIVERA AND THE AUTHORITIES OF THE DICTATORSHIP, WHO CONSIDERED HIM, WITHOUT ANY FOUNDATION, "SEPARATIST" IN JULY 1936 HE HAD TO FLEE, PROTECTED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF CATALONIA, TO ITALY, FROM WHERE HE WROTE AND DISTRIBUTED SOME LETTERS IN ITALIAN AND LATIN EXPLAINING THE SAD SITUATION OF HIS MONASTERY, LOOTED BY MOBS, ALTHOUGH SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION THANKS TO THE CONSTANT ACTION OF THE GENERALITAT DELEGATES WHO HAD SEIZED IT. AT THE BEGINNING OF 1939 HE WAS ABLE TO RETURN TO MONTSERRAT, WHERE HE BEGAN A VERY DIFFICULT STAGE OF RESTORATION: THE MONASTERY AND THE SANCTUARY HAD BEEN CONVERTED INTO A HOSPITAL, TWENTY-THREE OF HIS MONKS HAD BEEN MURDERED, OTHERS HAD DIED OR HAD ABANDONED MONASTIC LIFE AS A RESULT OF THE THE VICISSITUDES OF THE WAR, AND THE POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES HAD CHANGED ENORMOUSLY. IN 1941 IT OBTAINED A COADJUTOR ABBOT WITH THE RIGHT TO SUCCESSION, AURELIO MARÍA ESCARRÉ, WHO HAD ALREADY BEEN ITS PRIOR SINCE 1939, AND LED A RETIRED LIFE UNTIL HIS DEATH. Seller Inventory # 430775586

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