Miquel d'Esplugues
Miquel d'Esplugues (Esplugues de Llobregat, Baix Llobregat, 1870 – Barcelona, 1934) was the religious name of the Catalan writer and Capuchin friar Pere Campreciós i Bosch. He became orphan from father when he was six years-old. He studied Humanities in the Seminary of Barcelona and in 1887 he became Capuchin. He was teacher of philosophy in (1892) and of theology in (1898), and he became a priest in 1893. As responsible and vicar "in capite" of the Capuchin Navarrese-Catalan province, in 1900 he achieved the restoration of the ancient Catalan province and he was appointed provincial governor  (1905–1915 and 1918–1921). In 1907 he founded and managed the review "Estudios Franciscanos" and in 1925 the first Catalan review about philosophy "Criterion". He had an important influence over the Catalan Regionalist League people and he was a close friend of Francesc Cambó. He organized also the "Catalan Biblical Foundation" and he was the president.