{"id":14597,"date":"2011-08-24T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T07:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=14597"},"modified":"2011-10-01T22:01:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T05:01:02","slug":"monuments-tombs-art-and-devotion-in-monserrat-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/14597","title":{"rendered":"Monuments, Tombs, Art, and Devotion in Monserrat, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Basilica de Santa Maria de Montserrat are the tombs of Don Juan de Aragon, Prince of the Royal House of Catalonia,\u00a0and Bernat\u00c2\u00a0II Vilamari, a Spanish Admiral who served the King of Aragon and the King of Naples and died in 1512 .\u00a0 There is also a sculpture of King John I (Joan I), friend of Montserrat .\u00a0 Outside the Basilica stands a sculpture of Saint George by Josep Maria Subirachs, the same sculptor whose works are seen on the Passion Facade of La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona .\u00a0 Note that, even with the photo of Saint George, as you move from left to right, Saint George’s face seems to move to follow you .\u00a0 Finally, we leave Montserrat by lighting a devotional candle in the Ave Maria Path.<\/p>\n

\"Tomb<\/a><\/p>\n

Tomb of Don Juan de Aragon<\/em><\/p>\n

SOURCE:\u00a0 Tomb of Don Juan de Aragon (Montserrat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 August 2011.<\/p>\n

\"Tomb<\/a><\/p>\n

Tomb of Bernat II Vilamari<\/em><\/p>\n

SOURCE:\u00a0 Tomb of Bernat II Vilamari (Montserrat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 August 2011.<\/p>\n

\"King<\/a><\/p>\n

King John I<\/em><\/p>\n

SOURCE:\u00a0 King John I (Montserrat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 August 2011.<\/p>\n

\"Saint<\/a><\/p>\n

Saint George<\/em><\/p>\n

SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Saint George\u00c2\u00a0(Montserrat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 August 2011.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

The Ave Maria Path<\/em><\/p>\n

SOURCE:\u00a0 The Ave Maria Path (Montserrat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 August 2011.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Basilica de Santa Maria de Montserrat are the tombs of Don Juan de Aragon, Prince of the Royal House of Catalonia,\u00a0and Bernat\u00c2\u00a0II Vilamari, a Spanish Admiral who served the King of Aragon and the King of Naples and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[311,318,330],"class_list":["post-14597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-mediterranean-vacation","tag-montserrat","tag-spain"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-3Nr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14909,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14597\/revisions\/14909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}