BARCELONA, Spain.
Pedro Poveda's name was written on a stained glass window of the Holy Family Basilica in Barcelona.
Fr. Lluis Bonet Armengol is the person responsible for this. He is a member of the staff of Holy Family Basilica and he knows St. Pedro Poveda and the Teresian Association, especially through his association with “Pasaje” Center in Barcelona.
It is traditional to include names or figures in the windows of the basilica designed by architect Antoni Gaudi but, generally, this is done at the request of religious groups or parishes. In this case it was Fr. Lluís Bonet Armengol, iconography manager, the one who wanted to engrave the name of Poveda.
Location of the stained glass window
The window with the inscription "P. Poveda" may be found on entering the temple through the door of the Passion, on the right, next to the diocese of Solsona Barcelona, Girona and Vic, in the windows dedicated to the Diocese of Granada.
The iconography of the stained glass windows
On the sides of the basilica are sets of windows dedicated to Spanish autonomous communities, with names of shrines and saints, sorted by diocese.
Each set consists of a stained glass rose window as well as long and circular windows. In the rosette are engraved shrines of different dioceses and on the circular windows, names of saints of each diocese.
In the Diocese of Granada, among others, is the name of Pedro Poveda, who shares the window with M. Carmen González Ramos, founder of the Franciscan Religious Institute of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. The stained glass window of Pedro Poveda is in space 83 in the following sketch of the window:
The stained glass windows: symphony of color and light
The painter Joan Vila-Grau was commissioned by the Building Board of the Holy Family Basilica to do all the windows of the temple. The objective of Joan Vila-Grau is to develop a symphony of color and light, fulfilling the desire of Gaudí: "The Temple of the Holy Family will be light ... it will be the temple of harmonious light". The windows designed by Vila-Grau invite us to enter into the magic of color and light made poetry.
Reference to St. Pedro Poveda
In the folder that contains the project of iconography, every window and every saint has a text that introduces and briefly describes it. A book will be published with this material describing the content of the windows of the basilica.
The text regarding Pedro Poveda says:
""July 28. Born in Linares (Jaén) in 1875. Studied at the seminary of Jaén and ordained a priest in Guadix (1897). In the "neighborhood of the Caves" of Guadix he was dedicated to the marginalized and created schools (from 1894 until 1905). Being canon in Covadonga, Oviedo, he studied pedagogical issues, created schools and founded the Teresian Association dedicated to the formation of professional Christian teachers. The Teresian Association was approved in 1917 and was recognized in 1924 by Pope Pius XI. He died a martyr in 1936. His work is spread to Spain, América, África and Asia. In Barcelona,"Pasaje Center" is part of his legacy. John Paul II canonized him in 2003".
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