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1933 MONTSERRAT magazine article, Monastery Spain Barcelona history Monks etc:
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Selling is a 1933 magazine article about: MONTSERRAT Title: MONTSERRAT, SPAIN\'S MOUNTAIN SHRINEAuthor: E. John Long Quoting the first page “Hardly out of sight of the smoking factory chimneys and scarcely out of hearing of the noise and bustle of Barcelona, busiest and most restless city of Spain, a medieval Benedictine monastery clings to the face of a fantastic stone peak that rises boldly from the brown foothills of Cataluna (Catalonia). It is Montserrat, the Nation\'s holiest shrine, to which thousands of the Spanish faithful make pilgrimage each year to pay homage to what is called the Black Virgin. The prosperity, modernity, and political activity of Barcelona trampled my illusions of a Spain of castles, balconies. castanets, and guitars. The city had, to be sure, a bull ring and toreadors; but these, I was informed with much shrugging of the shoulders, are for the crowds. Consequently, after I had admired the fine view from Mount Tiofferabo, Barcelona\'s Hollywood Hills, I was ready to go on to other parts of Spain. \"Ah, but, senor,\" remonstrated the hotel manager. \"have you seen Montserrat? It is Spain\'s most sacred shrine. It is very quaint and old, and the Benedictine monks will let you live with them in the Monastery for three days! It is not far from Barcelona. You should see the Black Virgin, and the view from the Monastery is magnificent! You will change your opinion of Cataluna.\" he added with characteristic Catalan pride. Spain\'s most sacred shrine! I tried to recall others. There was the Escorial, near Madrid, where royalty was buried. But no, the common people, the peasants, seldom went there. And the birthplace of El Cid. Spain\'s national hero, in Burgos. El Cid, however, was a popular figure, like Robin Hood or a motion-picture star. People talked about him, but they did not worship him. Live in a monastery with the monks! Why hadn\'t some one mentioned this before? I had included Barcelona in my itinerary because it lay conveniently on the route from southern France to the beauty spots of Spain-the Alhambra at Granada, La Mezquita of Cordoba, and the Alcazar and the Giralda of Sevilla. Montserrat. I learned, is the name of a strange mountain, and also of the Monastery, which clings like a swallow\'s nest halfway up its precipitous cliffs. The Black Virgin, a wooden image darkened by age, is not the only reason why it is a place of pilgrimage. Montserrat, in Catalan tradition, is the Monsalvatsh or Monsalvat of the Middle Ages, site of the castle of the Holy Grail. The Arabs called it Gistaus, or the stone watchman. Here Ignatius of Loyola, a wounded soldier, knelt in prayer, and went a way to found the Society of Jesus. In more recent years the Montserrat choir school has become celebrated. I inquired of the hotel manager if one must be a Catholic to stay in the Monastery. Oh, no, senor,\" he replied. \"The Benedictine fathers are most hospitable to all, whether one comes to pray, or atone, or meditate, or just to see. And there is no charge for lodging, although one is expected to leave a small contribution for holy work.\" Montserrat is accessible to Barcelona by both railway and road. One way is as picturesque and as spectacular as the other: for, while the highway climbs to the Monastery in a series of hairpin turns and horseshoe curves, the last few miles of the 35-mile railway journey may he made on a narrow-gauge rack-and-pinion line or in the bobbing cage of a new aerial cableway. Being in no hurry, I chose, at the recommendation of my host in Barcelona, the railway and the rack-and-pinion route. Once clear of the spreading suburbs of Barcelona, the main-line railroad strikes boldly out into the beautiful plain of Sardanola. How much the countryside here resembles southern California! There are green fields with angular irrigation…\" 7” x 10”, 9 pages, 10 B&W photos These are pages carefully removed from an actual 1933 magazine. 33A3 Please note the flat-rate shipping for my magazine articles. Please see my other sales and store items for more old articles, advertising pages and non-fiction books.Click Here To Visit My store: busybeas books and ads
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