Cardinal Bertone speaks about Gaudí

"For Gaudí, art can take theological language," said Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone -n. 2 of the Catholic Church- in an interview of Eusebio Val and Enric Juliana published in "La Vanguardia" (23-IX-2012). Commenting on the theme of the relationship between God and the contemporary man, Bertone said: "The majestic Sagrada Família some extent in Western Europe represents the symbol of the relationship between the human and the divine, between nature and the supernatural. For Gaudí, art can take theological language, that is, speak to the man of God. Therefore, art is understood in the background as an instrument of dialogue and communion between nature and grace. " Cardinal Bertone has understood what Gaudí intended, from the religious point of view, with the Sagrada Família: speaking, with art, of God to men of after the Industrial Revolution. The present time, in terms of rotation of the relations between Spain and Catalonia, led by the conservative Catalan, closely resemble one hundred years ago. The September 11, 1714, Catalonia militarily lost its sovereignty. Two hundred years later, the conservative Catalan, led by Enric Prat de la Riba, got the first "return of sovereignty", a first partial self-government: the Commonwealth of the four Catalan provinces. And a hundred years later, we are in 2014: see what happens! By the way, made reading the story, remember that whole movement -Catalans aspired to an Iberian Confederation, similar to the Swiss Confederation, with Portugal included- was completed in 1923 with the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. Primo de Rivera gave his coup in Barcelona, with the unanimous support of the Catalan business. The economic situation of the Sagrada Família, however, was in 1914 the opposite now: there was no money. And the president of the Commonwealth of Catalonia, Enric Prat de la Riba, and the Bishop of Barcelona, Dr. Reig, wanted to visit the works on November 30, 1914, to support the construction of the temple and its architect. Antoni Gaudí, by opening his soul sincere, explained: "I have not invented anything. I did but lift the expiatory church, rebuilt the Church, back to generations to come the Church with its original spirit; to present, the current progress, the Church founded by the Apostles, adapted to the needs of modern times."