The climber who was in critical condition after being hit by several stones on Saturday while on a route in Montserrat has died this Tuesday at Bellvitge Hospital, as reported by La Vanguardia and confirmed by the ACN. The deceased was accompanied by a man, both 30 years old, who died the day after the accident at Vall d'Hebron Hospital. The Montserrat Mountain Patronage has preemptively closed five climbing routes in the Columpi sector after the fatal accident, as there is an accumulation of stones in the area with a high risk of falling.

One of the two climbers who was in critical condition after being hit by several rocks on Saturday while climbing a route in Montserrat has died, according to sources from the hospital where he was admitted, Vall d'Hebron, to the ACN.

What should we do about death? We experience it intensely. It's a constant presence in the news. Ukraine, Gaza... and closer to home. It has a tragic face—wars and climate disasters—and an everyday face—old age, illness. It will come to us all. It's something natural, intertwined with the mystery of life. I ponder this as, having moved past the noise of the millennium celebrations, I climb Montserrat, where this three-way connection—nature, life, and death—becomes even more apparent. A thousand years of history, of intertwined human stories, as if we were passing the torch, with the whimsical and imposing rock formations as witnesses.

On Monday night, TV3 and Canal 33 counterprogrammed with two documentary offerings. On the one hand, the second season of [title of documentary] premiered. The great illusionThe documentary series about the history of Catalan cinema. The first season, directed by Àlex Gorina and Esteve Riambau, premiered in January 2019. Fortunately, the program's tagline is accurate: it's an "intermittent narrative." In this new season, the first two interviewees have sadly passed away. Actress Marisa Paredes and director Josep Maria Forn died in 2024 and 2021, respectively. The series may have been tucked away in a drawer for some time and was perhaps retrieved due to an emergency. The program strives to maintain the magical and meticulously crafted visual style of its beginnings and remains a very good format both visually and in terms of content. The script always prioritizes the social and political context to emphasize that Catalan cinema is not an isolated phenomenon, and, when appropriate, it knows how to connect the past with the present. It has an informative spirit but never descends into a tedious encyclopedic narrative nor does it operate solely through chronological inertia. The new season begins in the 1960s, in the midst of the dictatorship. The narration of actor Francesc Orella guides us through the country, in a kind of road movie which showcases Catalonia as a location for international film shoots. The series skillfully incorporates film clips and magnificent archival footage, and above all, highlights key figures in Catalan cinema. The great illusion It's more than just a program: it's a theoretical corpus worth organizing and immortalizing.

The Portuguese poet, humanist, and writer Francisco Botelho de Morais e Vasconcelos (1670-1747) must have thought it wiser to hide his support for the Austrian cause during the War of the Spanish Succession. To conceal any evidence, he removed about 200 octaves, about twenty pages of sensitive political and biographical information from the epic poem. The New World (1701), which features Christopher Columbus.

The storm of intense rainfall in Catalonia has caused the death of a child aged approximately 11 or 12 and the disappearance of his father in Sant Quintí de Mediona, in the Alt Penedès region, after the car they were traveling in was swept away by a stream. The child's body was found a few minutes before 10 p.m. in the Bitlles River, in Sant Pere de Riudebitlles. "Based on the evidence we have from the police investigation, it is the child's father," said the Minister of the Interior, Núria Parlon, who appeared before the media from Sant Quintí de Mediona. Parlon explained that the man tried to cross a watery crossing despite warnings from neighbors not to do so: "They told him not to cross, but he did." The sudden rise in water swept away the car, which became stuck in a playground.

Abbot Emeritus Sebastià Bardolet died this Tuesday at the age of 91, the Montserrat Abbey announced in a statement. "During his years of monastic life, he carried out various services within the community, as prefect of the Montserrat Choir from 1968 to 1977 and prior of the abbey from 1978 to 1989," the abbey noted.

The Visit of King Felipe VI to Montserrat still brewing in some sectors of the independence movement, but several actors in the movement remain in tune with the abbey. Some are grateful for the latest gestures, which have turned the page on the complex situation derived from the invitation to the Spanish monarchy at the monastery's millennium events—after the royal family wanted to be present. In any case, more than two months after the event with the head of state, the abbey has now held a reception for the Catalan nationalist. Canigó Award from the Catalan Summer University (UCE), in which the abbot, Manel Gasch, spoke of "Catalan Countries." Gasch also He met with former President Carles Puigdemont in Waterloo. this week, and He sent a message to the PP and the rest of the European Parliament., with the demand for the use of Catalan in the European Union, as "part of the identity" of the continent, within an exhibition on the monastery's millennium in which he implicitly rowed for official status in the EU. Has there been a Catalanist redemption of Montserrat?

Montserrat Abbey received the Canigó Prize this Thursday, awarded by the Catalan Summer University (UCE) in recognition of its thousand-year history, inseparable from that of Catalonia. But both the award ceremony and the presentation of the prize, which was received by Father Abbot Manel Gasch, were marked by a profound change. due to the controversial participation of Felipe VI at the millennium celebration event, which unleashed an earthquake within Catalan Catholicism. During the ceremony, Gasch had to listen to several calls for Montserrat to continue being "the spiritual refuge," the "center of cultural resistance," and the "common home" of the Països Catalans. These were the words used by the Archbishop of Tarragona and president of the Tarragona Episcopal Conference, Joan Planellas, in his speech to the audience.

You don't need a ticket to Iceland or a rocket to Mars. This summer you can travel to another planet without leaving Catalonia and discover places that seem otherworldly. We're talking about places that don't fit the typical postcard, neither the gentle green of the Pyrenees, nor the Mediterranean gold of the coves of the Empordà. They are spaces that seem to have emerged from a dream, a fairy tale, or a distant planet. And yet, they are right here, close to home.

What has become of the Catalan Church at the end of the last century? To mention just a few of those who are no longer with us, I'm talking about the Church of Bishops Pont i Gol, Deig, Camprodon, Guix, and Carrera. Of Archbishop Torrella and Cardinal Jubany. I'm talking about that Church of the Totosaus and the Alcaldes. Of the Huguets. Of the Marquises, Vilanova and Raguer, monks of Montserrat. And I'm not lying to the laity so as not to turn the entire article into a list of names.

The visit of the Spanish monarchs to Montserrat to commemorate the abbey's millennium has attracted the attention of the Spanish media, especially due to the tension with the pro-independence protesters. Public mirror They reveled in the images of the confrontation with the Mossos d'Esquadra and Puigdemont's tweet criticizing the event. The Griso commentators compared it to the people who demonstrated at the Valley of the Fallen and lamented its supposed ultra-orthodoxy. A testament to the collaborators' knowledge. On Telecinco, Ana Rosa Quintana looked disgusted when she saw the images of the protesters: "What were the King and Queen doing there?" she asked indignantly. "The issue is increasingly tense," the presenter concluded, appealing to a catastrophic drift. Cristina Cifuentes replied: "It's the last straw that the King and Queen of Spain can't visit a part of Spain."

Unlike Lluís Llach, I believe very well that the Spanish monarchs went to Montserrat. No, no, please, readers! Wait! Don't rush to unsubscribe! Don't upset our editor this way! Let me explain!

The visit of the King and Queen of Spain to Montserrat was disappointing. You can't spend an hour and a half glossing over it. The spirit of Peace and Truce of Abbot Oliba Not to mention Catalonia and Spain and their poor fit. Statements like "dialogue begins with listening" cannot be made if they are not put into practice. To say that "dialogue is a process, it is work," and that it is not possible to hold a sincere dialogue before the king, is to use words in vain. The event ended up being a performance of fake normality. The truth was lacking.

What should a king eat? During the Spanish monarchs' visit to Montserrat, the chefs at the Hotel Abat Cisneros were responsible for resolving this issue. They planned a catered banquet in the gardens near the monastery itself. In addition to the king and queen, the visiting guests also attended, including government officials, Minister Jordi Hereu, the Spanish government delegation, figures from the economic and business world, and, of course, the monks.

That symbols are important is an idea that should be clear, especially to the King of Spain, who is someone who, let's put it this way, thrives on being a symbol. The King of Spain is an institution, and his function, his reason for being, is fundamentally symbolic. Specifically and emphatically, the King—the monarchy—is the symbol of the unity of Spain, and of its indivisibility. In a parliamentary monarchy, which is the form of the Spanish state, the King—or the Queen, if the now Princess Leonor comes to govern—literally personifies the nation, which in turn is the state, and whose main attributes are that it is indissoluble and indivisible. All of this is stated in the preliminary title, Article 1, of the Spanish Constitution of 1978.

King Felipe VI landed in Catalonia this Monday to visit the Montserrat Abbey, a symbol of Catalan nationalism and where the country's patron saint is venerated. This visit has caused unrest among Catholic Catalans and the independence movement. In fact, his landing—by helicopter—including a prayer at the Moreneta (Birmingham Mass), sparked a protest outside the monastery by a few hundred people summoned by the Catalan National Assembly (ANC), who were unable to even approach the basilica due to the absolute protection of the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan Police). The king came to participate in an event commemorating the institution's millennium and to win the sympathy of the Catalan people with a speech delivered mostly in their own language, in which he also criticized "exclusionary identities" and "extremism." Aware that "its symbolic value transcends its enormous religious dimension," he hailed the abbey as "a great meeting point for our culture: Catalan, Spanish, and European."

Rome, 1970. Pope Paul VI receives the abbot of Montserrat, Cassià Just. Days earlier, the abbot had opened the monastery doors to some 300 intellectuals, protesting the Burgos Trial against ETA militants, including two priests. The Basque Church revolted against the military trial, which handed down nine death sentences, which Franco avoided with a last-minute pardon. Montserrat was strongly attacked by the dictatorship, and the abbot sought the protection of the Holy See. And he received it: Paul VI reassured him with a "welcome everyone."

King Felipe VI's upcoming visit to Montserrat on the eve of Saint John's Day has caused a stir among Catalan Catholic circles, suggesting that consultations within the Royal Household pointed in that direction. The Newspaper published that the monarch would attend on June 23, but at that time, despite the Head of State's intention to attend, no details had been agreed upon between the institutions nor had the king's attendance been formally communicated, according to sources familiar with the matter to this newspaper. The Montserrat Abbey, symbol of Catalanism, has he opened the doors to the head of state?