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  • The 25th International Meeting of Prayer for Peace is about to end.
  • Luis Martínez Sistach (born 29 April 1937 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) is the current Archbishop of Barcelona.
  • In this way he brought together the reality of the world and the history of salvation, as recounted in the Bible and made present in the liturgy”.

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    Barcelona 2010 - Intervention of Lluís Martínez SISTACH

     The 25th International Meeting of Prayer for Peace is about to end. These three days have been intense for our City, for religions, for religious denominations in our City of Barcelona and in other cities of Catalonia. We have been thinking, living, talking and praying together. It is now time to say farewell, it is time for each of us to commit ourselves and let the spirit of Assisi, the spirit of this meeting, blow in our daily lives.

    As the Archbishop of this City and of the Diocese of Barcelona, I now wish to thank God and you all, dear friends, who have come here. I thank the Representatives of the world religions and denominations, of many cultures and nations, who have given life, ideas and insight for our prayer to this 25th Meeting in Barcelona. Thank you for coming! Thank you for celebrating with us the silver jubilee of this event, which Pope Benedict XVI defined as “a commendable initiative” in t

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    It was a historic visit


    Benedict XVI with Cardinal Lluís Martínez Sistach, Archbishop of Barcelona [© Osservatore Romano]

    The dedication of the church of the Sagrada Família was a historic event. Because of the presence of the Holy Father Benedict XVI, who presided over the celebration, and because of the unique, majestic work, so beautiful and full of biblical, theological, liturgical and catechetical symbolism that is the Basilica, designed and initiated by the brilliant architect and servant of God Antoni Gaudí.
    I would like to renew my thanks to the Pope for the kindness he has shown to our local Church and other dioceses in the country in accepting the invitation that I made to come to Barcelona for an occasion that I believe really merited the presence of the Supreme Pontiff: the dedication to God of what many consider not only “the Cathedral of Europe” but also “the Cathedral of the world” or “the Cathedral of the twenty-first

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    Teen, martyred while protecting the Eucharist,
    beatified in Barcelona Spain

    By Courtney Mares


    Beatification Mass for Joan Roig Diggle in the Sagrada Família Basilica in Barcelona Nov. 7, 2020.


    A 19-year-old Spanish martyr who gave his life while protecting the Eucharist was beatified Saturday at a Mass in the Sagrada Família Basilica in Barcelona.

    “Yesterday in Barcelona Joan Roig Diggle, a lay man and martyr killed at the age of 19 during the Spanish Civil War, was proclaimed Blessed,” Pope Francis said in his Angelus address Nov. 8.

    “May his example arouse in everyone, especially the ung, the desire to live the Christian vocation to the full,” the pope said.

    Blessed Joan Roig Diggle was killed “in hatred of the faith” in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War. The ung man was known for his devotion to the Eucharist at a time when churches in Barcelona were being closed, burned, or destroyed, so a priest entrusted Joan Roig with a ciborium containing the Blessed Sacram