Antoni Clarassó i Terès[n. 1] (died August 1611)[1] was a Spanish canon of the diocese of Urgell, treasurer-canon of the Cathedral of Barcelona,[2] guest priest at the archdiocese of Tarragona (1588–1591),[3] and vicar general of archbishop and viceroy of Catalonia Joan Terès i Borrull (1587–1599).
He and Joan Terès are remembered in the stories of the Society of Jesus as remarkable benefactors of the Ignacian institution.
[6] On August 13 of 1592, Pope Clement VIII approved a bull that decreed the secularization of the regular canons of the Order of Saint Augustine from all monasteries and priories in Catalonia, Roussillon and Cerdanya.
[7] Clarassó was sent by his uncle to the monastery of Saint Mary of Solsona in order to read this bull to the Augustine canons.
[4] After a long illness that kept him in bed for seven months, Clarassó died in Barcelona one day of August 1611, between 7 and 8 pm He named the novitiate of Tarragona as his heir, giving all his «books of law» to that institution.