7/12/2023 0 Comments Canigo verdaguerNow he had earned his reputation as a poet. In 1877, when he was 32, and having returned from his journey, the jury of the Jocs Florals awarded him the special prize of the Diputation of Barcelona for L'Atlàntida. In November he entered the palace of the Marquis of Comillas as an alms chaplain. On board the "Ciudad Condal", on the return voyage from Cuba, Jacint Verdaguer finished his epic poem L'Atlàntida. On 8 September 1876 his father died at the age of 65. In December, he joined the Companyia Transatlàntica trans-Atlantic steamship company as a chaplain because he was prescribed sea air for his health he embarked in Cádiz bound for Havana.ġ880 first edition of Cançons de Montserrat ( Songs of Montserrat), poems from the sacred mountain of Montserrat by Jacint Verdaguer He went on a trip to Roussillon and saw the mountain, El Canigó, possibly for the first time. He left Vinyoles d'Orís for health reasons and moved to Vic. In 1873, he published the cant (ode or song) "Passió de Nostre Senyor Jesucrist" (Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ). On September 1 he was appointed bishop coadjutor of the small town of Vinyoles d'Orís and three days later he took up his charge. In 1871, his mother died (January 17) at the age of 52. The next day he said his second Mass in the Sant Francesc hermitage near Vic. On 24 September 1870 he was ordained a priest by the bishop Lluís Jordà in Vic, and in October that same year, he said his first Mass, in the Sant Jordi hermitage. The next year he won two prizes in the same Jocs Florals. In 1865, he participated in Barcelona's Jocs Florals-or "Floral Games"-poetry contest and won four prizes. Can Tona is in the municipal district of Sant Martí de Riudeperes, today Calldetenes ( Osona). In 1863, when he was 18, he started to work as a tutor for a family at the Can Tona masia (where he also helped out on the farm), while he continued to study. He displayed a balanced attitude without any apparent religious inclinations. The anecdotes told about him show that he stood out from his peers for his intelligence, astuteness and courage, as well as his athletic constitution. Until then, he had lived like the other children in his town. In 1855, at the age of 10, he entered the Seminary of Vic, as was expected for a child who was not the first-born under the system of primogeniture and had to make his livelihood without relying on an inheritance. He was the third of eight children, only three of whom survived. His mother, Josepa Santaló i Planes ( Folgueroles, 1819–1871), a housewife and farmer, was to exercise great influence over young Jacint, as she conveyed to him a love of literature, especially poetry, and was a deeply religious woman. His father, Josep Verdaguer i Ordeix ( Tavèrnoles, 1817 – Folgueroles, 1876), was a brickmason and farmer. He was born in Folgueroles, a town on the Plain of Vic, in the comarca of Osona ( Province of Barcelona) to a modest family who valued learning. Jacint Verdaguer monument on Plaça de Mossèn Jacint Verdaguer in Barcelona.
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