Basili de Rubí

Basili de Rubí (Rubí, 1899 — Barcelona, 1986) was the name of religion of the Catalan capuchin friar Francesc Malet i Vallhonrat.

He became Capuchin in 1927. During the Spanish Civil War he was nearly murdered, but he managed to scape and he moved to Italy. There he began his researches about the history of the Capuchin order in Catalonia. Once the war was over in Spain, he came back to Catalonia, and he was appointed director of the Capuchin seminaries of Olot and Barcelona, among other tasks.

He was historian, founder of the Franciscalia society in 1948, publisher of the review Estudios Franciscanos since its restoration (1948) and beginner and director of the Criterion collection (about Philosophy) in 1959.[1]

Works

  • Reforma de Regulares a principios del siglo XIX (1943). (in Catalan)
  • Necrologi dels frares menors caputxins de Catalunya i Balears (1945). (in Catalan)
  • Art pessebrístic (1947). (in Catalan)
  • La última hora de la tragedia. Hacia una revisión del caso Verdaguer (1958). (in Spanish)
  • El padre Bernardino de Manlleu (1962). (in Spanish)
  • Les corts generals de Pau Claris (1976). (in Catalan)
  • Un segle de vida caputxina a Catalunya (1978). (in Catalan)
  • Els caputxins a la Barcelona del segle XVIII (1984). (in Catalan)

References

  1. ↑ Here a short biography of Basili de Rubí can be found. (in Catalan)
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