Un fraile carmelita dice que la peste y el hambre no son culpa de los judíos, sino de los consejeros por especular en trigo

The famines of 1333, remembered later as «the first bad year,» caused riots in Barcelona against municipal councilmen, not against the Jews. When the Carmelite friar Bernat Puig preached on Christmas Day 1333, instead of «sowing peace» and «inducing the populace, as he ought, to endure the high wheat prices patiently,» he said only that the city councillors had caused the famine by hoarding grain, and that «it was fitting that God should give the city tribulations and anguishes, because of its evil government.»