Pope Pius XII looks heavenward. Alberto Martín Artajo, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the chamber. They make peace without looking into each other's eyes. As if they didn't see it. Atomic heat on August 27, 1953, at the papal residence of Castel Gandolfo. The thermometers of geopolitics and the geo-Holy Spirit explode: the Vatican and Franco's regime sign the concordat. Translation: A PVC church blesses a dictatorship of blood. The heavens open. And hell sneaks in.
Franco wins. A signature breaks the regime's international and celestial isolation. Yes, the Vatican supports a diabolical sect: National Catholicism. Franco's invention: it pushes church and state and forces an entire country, with a Christian culture, to undergo that ophthalmological and immoral kidnapping that makes one look through glasses with a single vision of Spain. Translated: Catholicism and dictatorship are the same as God. And they pull out the weapon with one hand.
The concordance is a chainsaw: "Readjustment of ecclesiastical jurisdictions, adapting them as far as possible to the provinces, the protection of monuments and other religious art..."Rac, rac, rac… bl The Bishopric of Lleida loses 35 parishes and that of Urgell 19. They are pushed by divine decree in Aragon. The era of the socialization of cuts begins. Always spiritual first and then physical. The axes, katanas, knives of the nationalist. Giant, immense, colossal pruning shears appear... Francoism makes visible a deadly fiction: to separate Lleida from Catalonia and annex it to the Ebro Valley Region (Aragon, Navarre, La Rioja and Alava. Capital… Zaragoza).natural region". Come on, God created it. And they say there is an earthly reason: "Economically speaking, it justifies the move to the Ebro Valley.Amen. Lleida is an economic powerhouse: it produces more than 90% of the country's fruit and is a leader in exports. Territorial and spiritual murder is proclaimed as a tenet of pedagogical faith: books are pouring out of schools that include the map where Lleida is now separated from Catalonia. But we don't have nuclear weapons. The earth will never know how to lie." And the people of Lleida swelled up their bellies and burst out: "Long live Catalonia!" And we are from Lleida. And from the stars. And we rise up here and dance. And that, which is what we've always done until now.
Some works. Some paintings. From Tarragona. But they haven't taken some works, nor will they take some paintings. my love. Religion, culture, language, humanity have been ripped off... And they'll take more. In pieces, like a carnage. For years now, Lleida and Catalan companies (large, medium, small) have been landing in Aragon with all the facilities they don't have in Catalonia. The Monegros are turning them into a garden of Adam and Eve. Migratory movements from Lleida to Aragon are beginning: physical and emotional. Everything is moving. Because the goal is for that shared infinite horizon, that hinge that moves heaven and earth, spirit and flesh, like an open door to the future, to tip like a balance, an existential gravitational axis, like a final slide that ends in Castile, Spain: the end. Because now we only have the truth that the dead have.
