Martí de Barcelona explained

Martí de Barcelona (the religious name of Jaume Bagunyà i Casanovas; –1936) was a Catalan Capuchin historian.

Biography

He was born in Barcelona in . He entered the convent of the Sarrià Capuchins and got his degree in history at the Catholic university of Louvain. Since 1926 he was the director of the review Estudis Franciscans ("Franciscan Studies"). In 1924 he published Jaume Caresmar's Història de la primacia de la seu de Tarragona (History of the primacy of the Cathedral de Tarragona). He became specialized in Francesc Eiximenis, and he transcribed the Doctrina compendiosa in 1929, which in fact, as it was later proven, is attributed to Francesc Eiximenis, and even though the book is inspired by his thought and doctrines, it was not written directly by him.[1] Together with the Capuchins Norbert d'Ordal and Feliu de Tarragona, they transcribed also three hundred fifty-two chapters of the Terç (third book) from Lo Crestià (1929–32). He also transcribed his interesting Ars Praedicandi Populo (Manual for the preaching to the people), that was discovered by him in Kraków. Moreover, he wrote several articles about medieval Catalan society and culture.[2] He was murdered by the FAI's anarchists at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. He was beatified in the cathedral of Barcelona on 21 November 2015 together with other Capuchins that had been also murdered during the religious persecution of 1936 in Montcada i Reixac.

Works

Editions of Francesc Eiximenis' works

"Els Nostres Clàssics". Collection A, nº 24.Text and footnotes by Martí de Barcelona, OFMCap

Text and footnotes by Martí de Barcelona and Norbert d'Ordal, OFMCap"Els nostres clàssics". Collection B, nº 1.

Text and footnotes by Martí de Barcelona and Norbert d'Ordal, OFMCap"Els nostres clàssics". Collection B, nº 2.

Text and footnotes by Martí de Barcelona and Feliu de Tarragona, OFMCap"Els nostres clàssics". Collection B, nº 4.

Other works

Notes and References

  1. Riera i Sans, Jaume. Fra Francesc Eiximenis no és l'autor de la Doctrina Compendiosa. Quaderns de Filologia de la Universitat de València, 1. 1984. 289–292.
  2. Most of the works that are listed below appear in Brines, Lluís. La Filosofia social i política de Francesc Eiximenis. Sevilla. Ed. Nova Edició. 2004. Pp. 601-2, 640.