After 1889 he was in contact with clairvoyants and exorcists and would soon begin to proselytise these activities that were not exactly recommended by the Church and prohibited by the Bishop of Barcelona. This was accompanied by an increase in the duties of his ministry and, in particular, those pertaining to his job as almoner. In 1886, on his return from a journey to the Holy Land, he underwent a spiritual crisis, which made him long for purification and asceticism. In the more than fifteen years that he lived in the Comillas Palace on the Barcelona Rambla, he had the opportunity of mingling with personalities from Catalan and Spanish high society, and also going on long excursions through the Pyrenees, staying in the spas and residences belonging to the Marquis, and making long journeys through North Africa, the Central European countries and the Middle East, which he later described in his literature. In 1877, Verdaguer became the family chaplain and six years later he was entrusted with the position of almoner. Poet and priestĪfter a short time as parish priest at Vinyoles d'Orís (1871-1873), and afflicted by severe headaches, he spent two years plying between Spain and Cuba as a ship's priest on the steamers of the Companyia Transatlàntica, property of Antoni López, the future Marquis of Comillas. From 1863 to 1871 he resided at the "can Tona" farmhouse, halfway between Vic and Folgueroles and here he produced his first literary works.įolgueroles, 1845 - Vallvidrera, 1902. He was ordained as a priest in 1870 and celebrated his first mass in the chapel of Sant Jordi de Puigseslloses. At the age of ten he entered the Vic Seminary, where he took ecclesiastical studies.
His parents were modest but relatively cultured country people.
LifeJacint Verdaguer i Santaló was born in Folgueroles (in the Osona region of Catalonia) on. Jacint Verdaguer Narcís Garolera (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
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