Martí de Barcelona
Martí de Barcelona was a Catalan Capuchin historian.
Biography
He was born in Barcelona in. He entered the convent of the Sarrià Capuchins and got his degree in history at the Catholic university of Louvain. Since 1926 he was the director of the review Estudis Franciscans. In 1924 he published Jaume Caresmar's Història de la primacia de la seu de Tarragona. He became specialized in Francesc Eiximenis, and he transcribed the Doctrina compendiosa in 1929, which in fact, as it was later proven, is attributed to Francesc Eiximenis, and even though the book is inspired by his thought and doctrines, it was not written directly by him. Together with the Capuchins Norbert d'Ordal and Feliu de Tarragona, they transcribed also three hundred fifty-two chapters of the Terç from Lo Crestià. He also transcribed his interesting Ars Praedicandi Populo, that was discovered by him in Kraków. Moreover, he wrote several articles about medieval Catalan society and culture. He was murdered by the FAI's anarchists at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. He was beatified in the cathedral of Barcelona on 21 November 2015 together with other Capuchins that had been also murdered during the religious persecution of 1936 in Montcada i Reixac.Works
Editions of Francesc Eiximenis' works
Doctrina Compendiosa. Barcelona. Editorial Barcino. 1929. 157 pp."Els Nostres Clàssics". Collection A, nº 24.
Text and footnotes by Martí de Barcelona, OFMCapTerç del Crestià. Volum I. Barcelona. Editorial Barcino. 1929. 318 pp.
Text and footnotes by Martí de Barcelona and Norbert d'Ordal, OFMCap
"Els nostres clàssics". Collection B, nº 1.Terç del Crestià. Volum II. Barcelona. Editorial Barcino. 1930. 302 pp.
Text and footnotes by Martí de Barcelona and Norbert d'Ordal, OFMCap
"Els nostres clàssics". Collection B, nº 2.Terç del Crestià. Volum III. Barcelona. Editorial Barcino. 1932. 296 pp.
Text and footnotes by Martí de Barcelona and Feliu de Tarragona, OFMCap
"Els nostres clàssics". Collection B, nº 4. L'Ars Praedicandi de Fra Francesc Eiximenis. Martí de Barcelona, OFMCap In Homenatge a Antoni Rubió i Lluch. Miscel·lània d'Estudis Literaris, Històrics i Lingüístics. Vol. II. Barcelona. 1936. 301-40.