On the 10th of February last, a ceremony to honour Fr. Bartolomé Xiberta was held at our house in Tarrasa (Barcelona, Spain) the city where he died in 1967. At the ceremony there was a presentation of the book written by the priest Josep Maria Manresa Lamarca, titled, The Ecclesiology of Fr. B. Xiberta (1897-1967), recently published by the Institutum Carmelitanum in Edizioni Carmelitane (Rome).

Along with the author, those who attended the ceremony included, Don Salvador Cristau, Auxiliary Bishop of the diocese of Tarrasa, (a message of support and affection was received from the Bishop of Tarassa, Don José Ángel Meneses, whom illness prevented from being present), the Prior General, Fr. Fernando Millán Romeral, O.Carm., the Postulator General, Fr. Giovanni Grosso, O.Carm., the Prior Provincial of the Province of Catalonia, Fr. Manuel Bonilla, O.Carm., and Don Salvador Pie Ninot, professor of Ecclisiology at the Pontifical Gregorian University who directed the thesis that has just been published. Each of the speakers spoke about the figure of Bartolomé Xiberta from a particular point of view: the theologian, the Carmelite, the sage and the religious. As people are aware, Fr. Xiberta’s cause for beatification is underway.