{"id":30453,"date":"2018-10-08T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/?p=30453"},"modified":"2018-10-08T00:00:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T22:00:17","slug":"8-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.claret.org\/de\/8-october\/","title":{"rendered":"8 October"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWhen I left the Canary Islands the bishop wanted to give me a new hat and coat but I wouldn\u2019t hear of it. All I took away with me were five big rips in my old coat which I got from the crowds that always used to press about me as I went from town to town.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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DETACHMENT AND ADORATION<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Fr. Claret had a great aesthetic sensibility; it was not in vain that he had studied drawing and textile design. He drew his own archiepiscopal coat of arms, the shield of the Academy of St. Michael, the many pictures in his Catecismo Explicado, etc. About his youth in Barcelona he wrote many years later: \u2018I liked to dress \u2013 I won\u2019t say luxuriously \u2013 but with a certain elegance\u2019 (Aut.72). At that time, fleeing from a seductive woman, he left the house so speedily that he forgot his hat; he was so \u2018embarrassed\u2019 that he never forgot it. Of the poor Jesus, notice that he died \u2018with neither hat nor cap (Aut.429).
\nThe imitation of the poor Christ and the preoccupation to save so as to help the poor was stronger for Claret than his aesthetic sensibility. At his episcopal consecration he did not use a new mitre but they placed on him, apparently at his own request, one belonging to the deceased Bishop Corcuera, much admired by him. In relation to the preparations for the journey to Cuba, the Bishop of Vic advised him: \u2018Write to the Nuncio and to the Minister of Justice putting before them your extreme poverty and the absolute lack of resources so that you have to find some means to deal with the expenses resulting from the appointment you have been given and asking that they either give you an advance or make a gift.\u201d (Epist.Pas I, p. 77).
\nWhat happened in the Canary Islands was repeated in Cuba. On being called to be the royal confessor (March 1857), he wanted to leave at once for Madrid. Only at the requests of his closest companions did he stay for four days whilst a tailor made him a new and minimally dignified habit with which to present himself at the royal and ministerial offices. For Claret a tattered cassock was a trophy. It made him resemble the poor Christ and he remembered with love and the contact with those he evangelized.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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