Desde el Ermitaño, el P. Palau da cuenta puntualmente de los hechos. Asume también la defensa de los suyos y de su causa. Sin embargo, no nos cansaremos de afirmar que en els penitents el talante era de acogida, de gratuidad, de integración, de inclusión. Eran...

Durante los últimos años, el p. Palau dedicó sus esfuerzos a esta actividad no solo delicada sino hasta heroica: la atención a los zarandeados por el mal. Las frecuentes revoluciones de su siglo, en sus ataques contra la Iglesia, le debieron parecer una confirmación...

Durante los últimos años el P. Palau dedicó sus esfuerzos a una actividad no solo delicada sino hasta heroica: la atención a los zarandeados por el mal. La revolución de 1868, violenta más que ninguna, en sus ataques contra la Iglesia, le debió parecer una...

Si a los grandes fundadores se les distingue por el desvelo realizado, por las dificultades superadas, por la originalidad del carisma fundacional, nuestro fundador tiene puesto asegurado entre ellos. Fundador, quien ha creado un ser espiritual nuevo, un estilo de...

El origen de la comunión entre el p. Palau y los primeros colaboradores suyos lo encontramos en la Escuela de la Virtud. Allí lo descubrieron como guía, líder, a quien merecía la pena acoger y formar parte de su presente y de su futuro porque podía ofrecerlos aquello...

            La sencillez es don y es tarea. Es don porque sobrepasa, sin pretenderlo, la dimensión humana. Y es tarea porque las personas han de poner lo mejor de sí mismas para favorecer su extensión y profundidad con tal de que pueble nuestro ámbito y planeta. A...

  The convent of Santa Cruz de Vallacarca was built by Gabriel Brunet. An expert mason. It must have been completed during the year 1861. Main house for the congregation. The Founder's dream. The building was erected at a short distance from the house of the...

The Palatian exorcisms were similar to prayers for healing. They prayed to God for the health of the sick person. They included, at the same time, the value of witnessing in the hostile environment of the time. Such a...

The parishioners sent the prelate a significant letter. In defence of Fr Palau and his activity, yes. In it they also refer to the quality of his apostolate, on a spiritual level: profound preaching, example of life, increase in sacramental practice .....

 Palau, on the one hand, to the personal interpellation of those suffering faces of the Church. And on the other, to the decisions of the hierarchy in this same area. How to respond to the double challenge: to the Church in its wounded children, without scorning it in its...

The mentality of Father François was based on a faith lived with simplicity perhaps, but with intensity and foundation. Of course! That is why exorcisms were signs of blessing. Something similar to prayers for healing. With them, they pleaded with...

March, 2025 During his last years he devoted his efforts to this not only delicate but even heroic activity: the care of those afflicted by evil. The frequent revolutions of his century, in their attacks on the Church, must have seemed to him a confirmation of his...

Fr. Francis's mood, far from being magical, was a faith lived with simplicity, and conviction, perhaps. With intensity. With great intensity. That is why the exorcisms he offered were signs of blessing. Something akin to prayers for healing. With...

People flooded into the Vallcarca neighbourhood. They were the poorest of the poor. Waste from the industrial revolution. From rural areas, too. With accumulated malnutrition, uneducated people and diseases of the time: pneumonia in winter, diphtheria, plague and typhus in summer. ....

In his prayer spaces, Francisco Palau sees evil fighting against the Church. To which he has pledged his fidelity and is ready to defend it in a concrete and continuous manner. With all his talent, ability and possibilities. At such a historic juncture, the...

Another of the manifestations of this period was popular religiosity. Father Palau declared that his was his own family substratum. A child of the rural Catalonia of his century, he incorporated these convictions. Evil was a character that could be counted on frequently.....

Francisco Palau y Quer, witness of the mystery of God incarnated or what is the same in his experience, MYSTERY OF THE CHURCH increases, today, his closeness to us, in order to celebrate his feast. He was a theological man. Through the well-known...

Francis was living a stage of fulfilment in his vocational journey. He was an excellent interpreter and preacher of the Word of God. However, little by little, his heart was turning towards the poor. The destitute. It happened in Barcelona, where he lived. Barcelona...

The last description of the text of Mis Relaciones consists of commenting on certain fragments of the text. I found it difficult. All of them seemed relevant to me. So I have been obliged to make a selection. And yes, from time to time, I have...

In the preceding reflection on the Palautian page, I will take the lead. You only have to take a brief look at it. Not now. Now Fco. Palau will have it. With the same contents, of course. But as he is the protagonist in the editorial office, this one...