page_title: Sarrià Capuchins
section_title: Beginnings
hierarchical_section_title: Sarrià Capuchins / History / Beginnings
caption_attribution_description: Català: Vista de Barcelona des del convent dels caputxins al Desert de Sarrià
context_page_description: The Sarrià Capuchins are a community of the Capuchins that settled in Barcelona in 1578 after a request of the Consell de Cent, and against the will of the king Philip II.
context_section_description: After a request of the Consell de Cent (ancient city rulers of Barcelona) in 1578, some Capuchins from Italy came to Barcelona, and they settled in the hermitage of Santa Madrona near Montjuïc. After a short period, they stayed for another short period in Sant Gervasi de Cassoles, but just in the same year the friars moved to a place called the Desert of Sarrià (in this context Desert means uninhabited place), where there was a chapel for Saint Eulalia, that had been built during the 15th century. it had been traditionally considered the birthplace of this martyr of Barcelona. Thus, in 1578, this place was given to the Capuchin friars so that they could found a convent of their order. This convent was the first one from their order in the Iberian Peninsula. This first Capuchin convent coexisted with the one of Montcalvari, that was also founded during those years outside the walls of Barcelona. During the 1714 siege in the War of the Spanish Succession the convent was taken by the army, but most of the Capuchins could remain in order to fulfil its religious duties, and the place was respected.
  The convent of Sarrià was therefore the first one of the Capuchins in the Iberian Peninsula, and it disappeared in 1835 with the seizure of goods from the church during the ecclesiastical confiscations of Mendizábal. The lands were acquired by the Italian Enrico Sisley. He got them in a rather not fully legal way and without any logical explanation.
caption: View of Barcelona from the convent of the Capuchins in the Desert of Sarrià
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