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| The Watsons visited some enterprises |
The Grandma has an enormous objective this year, to manage two families at time The Watsons & The Stones. It is not possible to stay in two different places at the same moment and thanks to the new technology, she can stay closer to both families.
While The Stones are preparing their baggage to travel to Ithaca, Greece, The Grandma has been with The Watsons preparing a new English exam, studying some English grammar and talking about their last visit to some important enterprises.
They have been talking about Adverbs of Manner, Prepositions of Place and Questions Tags. They have remembered the difficulty of the Phrasal Verbs and they have also read two new chapters of The Secret of Oldstone Hall and they have discussed about March, 8, its significance and some women chosen from an endless list who have not had their recognition in their professions.
Finally, The Grandma has explained a curious story about the Capuchins in Sant Boi de Llobregat and their importance then and now.
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In the moonlit nights, when all the surrounding woods remain silent, you can feel the somorous voices that sing Gregorian songs coming, along the winding path that goes from Sant Boi de Llobregat to the hermitage of Sant Ramon, the summit of Montbaig.
Suddenly, the procession stops on a bend. Barefoot, with its brown habit, the white cord at the waist and the hood covering their faces, the spectral friars move forward until they reach the garden square in front of the hermitage, now in shadows. And as soon as they begin to climb up the large stairway leading up to the front door, they disappear as mysteriously as they have appeared.
Their hesitating and uncertain step reminds us of the resurrectioned mummies...
And maybe that's what they are!
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From the middle of the 16th century, the Capuchin Order developed a macabre funerary practice that consisted of mummifying the deceased friars. The method became so famous that it even gave its name: to be buried in the way of the Capuchin.
This religious order was born in 1520 in Italy, separated from the Franciscans. The communities were small, ten or twelve members, who lived with simplicity and austerity, preaching the Franciscan spirit of poverty, observing rigorous fastings and penances and taking care of the disadvantaged. His name comes from the long and sharp hood of his habit.
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| The Grandma in an old visit to the Capuchins |
In Catalonia, the Capuchin Order arrived in 1578, by special request of the Consell de Cent.
And they established convents in several cities and towns, where they still profess. Under the plant of the old convents of Girona, currently in the Museum of History of the City, and Figueres, now converted into an auditorium, the corpse dryers are still preserved. The process of conserving the bodies of the deceased, perfected by the years of practice of the monks, consisted of the following: first, the bodies of the deceased brothers were placed in small underground cells called coladors, a kind of vertical niches with some banks of stone where the corpses were sitting, before covering the entrance.
And they established convents in several cities and towns, where they still profess. Under the plant of the old convents of Girona, currently in the Museum of History of the City, and Figueres, now converted into an auditorium, the corpse dryers are still preserved. The process of conserving the bodies of the deceased, perfected by the years of practice of the monks, consisted of the following: first, the bodies of the deceased brothers were placed in small underground cells called coladors, a kind of vertical niches with some banks of stone where the corpses were sitting, before covering the entrance.
For a couple of years, with the shortage of air and humidity, the bodies were dehydrating naturally, and the internal fluids were escorted by the holes that had been practiced in the banks. After this time, the individual tufts were demolished, the mummified bodies were removed, they were cleaned with vinegar, and they were allowed to dry outdoors.
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Finally, they were dressed in their habit and hanged in nearby units, along with other mummified monks. In this way, some macabre exhibition halls were created, gradually becoming one of the most important parts of the architecture of Capuchin convents. There they were contemplated and venerated by their alive brothers, as a reminder of the brevity of life and the need for captivity and humility.
In Sant Boi de Llobregat, the Capuchin Community was soon established: in 1579, they built a convent in the neighborhood of El Molí Nou, which they dedicated to the Visitation of the Virgin. But sixteen years later, for reasons of unhealthiness, the Provincial Government decided to close it. The building passed into the hands of another mendicant order, the Servants of Mary. After the 1835 dissolution, he was occupied by the brothers of Sant Joan de Déu, who established the famous mental health center today known as the Psychiatric Hospital.
Perhaps because of this, because they no longer have a room to rest for all eternity, the Capuchin Order of Sant Boi wake up at night, mummified, in the Baix Llobregat county.
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The soul should always stand ajar,
ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson
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