

Increasing its prestige and granting its new relic due recognition in the urbanĪrxiu Parroquial de Santa Maria del Pi, B361 Deliberacions, llibre E (1623-1639) APSMP-B381 Procura d'Herències. Solemnity of the event and located Santa Maria del Pi as the sound source, thereby Striking sonic feature, heard from on high and inside the church, added to the Would have included motets, madrigals and ‘batallons’ (battle pieces). St Raymon de Penyafort, the instrumental repertory heard during the festivities

Of other major ceremonies, such as the beatification of St Teresa of Avila and La Iglesia los mateixos dies, i per lo offici, vesprer, completes i professó dins Professó, per les dues vetlles al campanar dimarts i dimecres, dues vetlles a Wednesday, and two more in the church on the same days, and for the Mass, Vespers,Ĭompline and the procession in the church on the Thursday (‘…que hana en la Two vetlles in the bell-tower on the Tuesday and In 1599) the day after the festivities ended ‘for going in the procession, for Probably played shawms, sackbut and dulcian – payments were made to the ‘musich’Īntoni Casanovas i Tordera on behalf of the confraternity of instrumentalists (founded As regards the five members of the wind-band ( ministers) – who In the procession and, on two occasions, some of them played from theīell-tower. Five trumpeters and three drummers were involved Those present (‘… cantaren molts mutets ab gran content de tot lo poble’).Īspect of note was the participation of trumpeters, drummers and wind-players throughout Its honour, while motets were sung which, according to the account, pleased all Relic to all the nobles gathered for the occasion, and they donated jewels in Was received at Santa Maria del Pi with due solemnity: the rector presented the Reflect the significance of the occasion. Popular elements from the processional bestiary as well as the large number of wind-players Mulassa y lo drach y moltes cobles de menestrils’). Wind-bands’ (‘també anaven l’àliga de la Ciutat, los cavalls cotoners, la Horses of the guild of cotton-workers, the mule and the dragon and many Such as Corpus Christi: ‘the Eagle of the City processed along with the Ten confraternities with their banners and lighted candles, the cityĬouncillors, and other visual and sonic elements that characterised major feasts

Processed, together with twenty beneficed-priests from the cathedral, toĬollect the relic from Valldonzella and return it to the church, accompanied by October 1623, the rector and clergy left Santa Maria del Pi at about 3pm and Received by the rector, Mossen Joan Ferrer. Walls before being translated to Santa Maria del Pi, where it was to be Was housed initially at the Cistercian convent of Valldonzella outside the city The relic reached Barcelonaįrom Madrid, and, as was customary in the Catalan capital on such occasions, Of Catalonia, and a parishioner of that church. The previous year, and the relic, destined for the parish church of Santa Mariaĭel Pi, was donated by Guerau de Guardiola, royal deputy financial controller ( racional) Place over three days: 17, 18 and 19 October 1623. Joan Ferrer (mossèn rector de Santa María del Pi, Barcelona) ,Īntonio Casanovas i Tordera (ministril) ,Ĭeremonies held to receive a relic of St Isidore the Farm-Labourer in Barcelona took Guerau de Guardiola (racional real de Catalunya) , Representaban el prestigio del evento para la iglesia sino que también lo Instrumental y motetes cantados en polifonía. Hasta la iglesia, y los oficios celebrados en su honor allí, incluían música La procesión que acompañó la reliquia desde fuera de los muros de la ciudad Transformó en una suerte de faro sonoro con ocasión de la traslación de una reliquiaĭe San Isidro Labrador, donada a la iglesia por un notable de la ciudad, Guerau de Guardiola. EnĮste evento, la iglesia parroquial de Santa María del Pi de Barcelona se Ministriles en alto: la recepción de la reliquia de San Isidro Labrador en Barcelona (1623)įestividades urbanas de gran envergadura, celebradasĬomo parte integrante del ciclo litúrgico anual o como ceremoniasĮxtraordinarias, llenaban la ciudad de sonidos y músicas de muchos géneros.
