Francisco Vidal y Barraquer

Francisco de Asís Cardinal Vidal y Barraquer, in Catalan Francesc d' Assis Vidal i Barraquer, ( born October 3, 1868 in Cambrils, Spain, † September 13, 1943 in Freiburg, Switzerland ) was Archbishop of Tarragona.

Life

Francisco de Asís Vidal y Barraquer completed his philosophical and theological training in Barcelona, Tarragona and Madrid from the Doctor of Law. He received on 17 September 1899, the sacrament of Holy Orders, and then worked as a pastor and staff of the diocesan court in Tarragona. From 1909 to 1913 he served as Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Tarragona management.

1913 appointed him titular bishop of Pope Pius X. Pentacomia and Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Solsona. In the years 1914 to 1916 was Francisco de Asís Vidal y Barraquer Senator of the Spanish kingdom. 1919 Pope Benedict XV appointed him. Archbishop of Tarragona, 1921, he took it as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Sabina on the College of Cardinals.

Francisco de Asís Cardinal Vidal y Barraquer participated in the conclave of 1922. 1936 made ​​him a death threat to leave Spain. He initially retired to an Italian, and later a Carthusian monastery in Switzerland. As Cardinal Vidal y Barraquer was close to the Republican circles Catalonia, the regime of General Francisco Franco forbade him to return to his archbishopric. The cardinal died on September 13, 1943 Fribourg in Switzerland and was buried in the Church of the Carthusian monastery Valsainte. In 1978 his remains were transferred to the cathedral of Tarragona.