Sever de Barcelona en la primera hagiografia reformada.
Severus of Barcelona in the early reformation hagiography.
Author(s)
Arronis Llopis, CarmeDate
2021-05Discipline
HumanidadesKeyword(s)
Flos SanctorumHagiografia reformada
Contrareforma
Flos Sanctorum
Reformed hagiography
Counter-Reformation
Abstract
En aquest article es compara el relat del bisbe sant Sever de Barcelona
que circulava en el període medieval, en concret, la vida que s’imprimí
en el Flos sanctorum català (1524), amb el relat del sant que proposaren els
primers hagiògrafs catalans postridentins: el jesuïta Pere Gil (1600 ca.) i el
dominic Antoni Vicenç Domènec (1602). Tots dos autors volgueren esmenar
les notícies que s’havien popularitzat respecte del bisbe català, com ara que era
teixidor de lli, que tenia família o que la seua elecció com a bisbe havia estat per
designació divina, episodis que, en realitat, eren propis de la vida del bisbe sant
Sever de Ravenna. Els primers hagiògrafs catalans moderns intentaren aportar
historicitat i autoritat al nou relat, però hagueren d’enfrontar-se a informacions
dubtoses i contradictòries sobre l’existència del sant bisbe. Serà interessant,
doncs, veure les estratègies metodològiques i discursives que aplicaren per tal
de justificar quines dades acceptaven com a vàlides i com les articulaven per construir la nova identitat del sant patró. Tanmateix, comprovarem que la tasca
no fou senzilla, i que la imatge medieval perseverà arrelada en els devots al
llarg dels segles. This work compares the narrative of Bishop Saint Severus of
Barcelona that circulated in the medieval period, in particular, the life that was
printed in the Catalan Flos sanctorum (1524), with the narrative of the saint
proposed by the first post-Tridentine Catalan hagiographers: the Jesuit Pere Gil
(ca. 1600), and the Dominican Antoni Vicenç Domènec (1602). Both authors
wanted to amend the news that had become popular about the Catalan bishop,
such as that he was a linen weaver, that he had a family or that his election as
bishop had been by divine designation, episodes that, in fact, belong to the life
of Bishop St. Severus of Ravenna. The first modern Catalan hagiographers
tried to bring historicity and authority to the new story, but they had to face
dubious and contradictory information about the existence of the holy bishop.
It will be interesting, then, to see the methodological and discursive strategies
they applied in order to justify what data they accepted as valid and how they
articulated them to construct the new identity of the patron saint. However, we
will see that the task was not easy, and that the medieval image will continue
to be rooted in the devotees over the centuries.