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Homeless Jonah about to be devoured by a great 100€-plated fish

Posted: April 17th 2009 17:37. Last modified: April 17th 2009 18:35

But will an ecclesiastical trawler turn it into cat food first?

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Categories: Fishes, Les bourgeois, The abyss, The books and services of the Church, The ocean

Catalan Easter Jew-killing ceremony update

Posted: April 8th 2009 09:45. Last modified: April 3rd 2009 15:46

I wondered here whether pew-beating as a means of reliving medieval pogroms was a nineteenth century invented tradition. It was a rather naive question, and confirmation that the practice was already popular in Barcelona in 1848 is to be found in this Libro Verde entry for today, Holy Wednesday.

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Categories: Liberals & locals, The Church and the synagogue, The books and services of the Church, War

Go forth and multiply

Posted: April 2nd 2009 16:15. Last modified: April 2nd 2009 16:16

Witness accounts from the records of the Spanish Inquisition in Córdoba.

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Categories: Empire, Pagans, The books and services of the Church

PP’s Last Supper?

Posted: February 13th 2009 08:26. Last modified: February 20th 2009 16:47

Nice one from Ignacio Escolar, who quotes Luke and asks who’s playing Judas in this photo.

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Categories: Empires, rulers and warfare, Les bourgeois, The books and services of the Church

Sounds to kill Jews by

Posted: June 19th 2004 17:25. Last modified: April 3rd 2009 15:35

“Then the monsignor left the altar and told us that we could start killing the Jews.”

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Categories: Liberals & locals, The Church and the synagogue, The books and services of the Church, War

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Spanish history

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On this day

Barcelona

  • March 17 1844 

    First savings bank opens.
    Ábrese la primera caja de ahorros.

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 17 de març de 1919 A Palafrugell tothom es coneix i això fa que a la superfície de la vida vilatana, al voltant dels afers del poble, siguin sempre visibles algunes passions, els mòbils d’alguns actes, la finalitat d’alguns moviments –i moltes ridiculeses, és clar. A Barcelona, no veig res. Completa obscuritat. Probablement és perquè no tinc encara la vista [...]

Catholic hagiography

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