Bleeding-heart hippy

Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Teresa de Jesús, Carmelo, Barcelona.

Trevor @ Friday March 27th 2009 12:18

Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Teresa de Jesús, Carmelo, Barcelona.

Vatican II, said someone, but the church looks rather older to me, and I doubt its sponsors had any such lofty aspirations. The church of San Francisco down the road in Horta and numerous others in these forgotten neighbourhoods were similarly concerned with goodness rather than greatness in the (re)construction of neighbourhood life after the war and during the boom. Speaking as an unrancorous (and perhaps naive) atheist, I find it a shame that the church hierarchy failed, and still fails, to get the message.

Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Categories: Buildings, God, the angels and the orders of the faithful, Les bourgeois, Man and his parts

« · »

RSS: post comments, blog comments, blog posts

You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Share this post
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • LinkedIn
  • Live
  • Ma.gnolia
  • Meneame
  • MySpace
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati
See also

      There are no items in this feed.

Kalebeul gallery

More photo-posts here.

Google Reader

I share other stuff over here.

Pordiosería

If you're feeling generous, check out my Amazon wishlists for Deutschland, France , and the UK, or use PayPal to

My 5% bookstore - new stuff



Spanish history

Modern Spanish fiction

Spanish classics

On this day

Barcelona

  • March 18 1376 

    Tempestad marina en las costas de Barcelona, donde se hunde un barco procedente de Génova y fallecen 60 personas.

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 18 de març de 1918 Aquest matí, al safareig del jardí, he vist la primera oreneta de l’any. L’ocell era al cantell de pedra del dipòsit, molt a la vora de l’aigua, i tractava, amb grans dificultats, de beure’n una gota. A la tarda, en passar per davant de l’església, les orenetes xisclaven volant, descrivint circumferències molt amples, al voltant del [...]
  • 18 de març de 1919 Nit. Em quedo sol a la cambra de la dispesa. Vigília del meu sant. Recordo que molts anys enrera, a Palafrugell, en tal nit com aquesta, passaven colles d’homes per les cases que cantaven els goigs. «Sed, José, nuestro abogado – en esta vida mortal» –deien. Perfectament. Hom els donava mitja dotzena d’ous i se’ls havia [...]

Catholic hagiography

The peepul's choice

Back to top