The see of Egara

Distinguished visitors

  • 1564
    King Philip II visits the churches of Sant Pere on his way to Montserrat.
  • 1805
    Jaime Villanueva. Dominican Friar, theologian, scholar and historian.
  • 1814
    Fèlix Torres i Amat de Palou. Ecclesiastical and historian.
  • 1842
    Francesc Pi i Margall. Political, essayist and historian.
  • 1857
    Víctor Balaguer. Writer, journalist and politician.
  • 1880
    Romà Arnet, founder of the Catalan Association of Scientific Excursions.
  • 1889
    Josep Puig i Cadafalch publishes the first of his studies on the Churches of Sant Pere: Notes arquitectòniques sobre les Esglésies de Sant Pere.
  • 1920
    Chirle Bstatzigen,  Rnd. P. General of the Benedictine Order, accompanied by the abbot of Montserrat, Antoni M. Marcet.
  • 1914
    Enric Reig, abbot of Barcelona.
  • 1921 
    Mr. Hannotaux, French business ex-minister.
  • 1922
    Gathering of the Knights of St. George.
  • 1923
    Albert Einstein, scientist and Nobel prize in physics. He visited the See of Egara, accompanied by Josep Puig i Cadafalch. Einstein spent a five-day stay in Barcelona, invited by the Institute of Catalan Studies.
  • 1924
    Kings Alfonso XIII and Victoria Eugenia.
  • 1926
    The secretary of the British embassy and the consol of England visit the churches of San Pere.
  • 1927
    Arturo Cividini. Italian restorer who started and consolidated the paintings of St. Thomas Becket.
  • 1928
    Eulália de Borbón, infanta de España, Princess of Orleans and Duchess consort of Galliera.
  • 1929
    Visit of Alfonso Sala, Count of Ègara, and Queen Victoria Eugenia.
  • 1935
    Federico García Lorca. Poet, playwright and prosist.
  • 1937
    William Cosmo Gordon Lang, bishop of Canterbury, i Lluís Gudiol, archaeologist.
  • 1946
    Eugeni d’Ors i Rovira. Writer and philosopher.
  • 1950
    Centenary of the foundation of the Bishopric of Ègara. The churches were visited by: Gregorio Modrego y Casaus (bishop of Barcelona); Benjamín de Arriba y Castro (bishop of Tarragona); José Ibañez Martín (minister of National Education); Ramon Sanahuja (bishop of Segorbe); Aureli M. Escarré (bapt of Montserrat).
  • 1956
    Maria Cristina de Borbó, infanta of Spain.
  • 1962
    Pilar de Baviera y Borbón, royal princess of Bavaria.
  • 2009
    José Montilla Aguilera. 128th President of the Generalitat (2006-2010)
    Lluís Martínez and Sistach. Archbishop of Barcelona (2004-2015).