Sarrià Capuchins

During the 1714 siege in the War of the Spanish Succession the convent was taken by the army, but most of the Capuchins could remain in order to fulfil its religious duties, and the place was respected.

[1] The convent of Sarrià was therefore the first one of the Capuchins in the Iberian Peninsula, and it disappeared in 1835 with the seizure of goods from the church during the ecclesiastical confiscations of Mendizábal.

[2] After some years and failed attempts, the Ponsich family from Sarrià donated the present lands, where the convent began to be built in 1887.

This tradition of biblical studies has continued until now, with present experts such as Frederic Raurell, Enric Cortès and Jordi Cervera.

It had laymen collaborators such as Roc Llorens, Josep Maria Piñol, Jordi Maragall and Tomás Carreras Artau, among others.

[4] Under the altar of one chapel, inside a vase, there are the remainders of nine out of the twenty-six Capuchin martyrs of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.

[5] Nowadays, the convent of Sarrià hosts the Missions Ethnographic Museum, the Hispano-Capuchin Library and the Provincial Archive of the Capuchins of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, among others.