Abstract
In the summer of 1936, one of many episodes of religious violence that took place during the first moments of the Spanish Civil War occurred in Ivorra, a small village in the county of Segarra in Lleida, Catalonia). When a group of militia pickets from the county capital arrived on one of the acts of destruction of religious artefacts common at that time, the local anti-fascist committee refused to hand over an object of special value: the shrine that, even today, continues to hold the relics of the Holy Doubt (Sant Dubte), a miracle recorded more than nine centuries earlier involving the mystical truth of Eucharistic transubstantiation. The history of this profanation attempt and the relic’s subsequent fate give us an insight into the way in which modernity has struggled to disable the power of ritual to transcend the symbolic sphere, and to become effective in 20th-century Spain and beyond.
Highlights
SUMMARY In the summer of 1936, one of many episodes of religious violence that took place during the first moments of the Spanish Civil War occurred in Ivorra, a small village in the county of Segarra in Lleida, Catalonia)
Of destruction of religious artefacts common at that time, the local anti-fascist committee refused to hand over an object of special value: the shrine that, even today, continues to hold the relics of the Holy Doubt (Sant Dubte), a miracle recorded more than nine centuries earlier involving the mystical truth of Eucharistic transubstantiation
El Sant Dubte de la parròquia d’Ivorra, Barcelona: Balmes
Summary
RESUMEN En el verano de 1936 se produjo en Ivorra, un pequeño pueblo de la Segarra (Lleida), uno de los numerosos episodios de violencia religiosa que conocieron los primeros momentos de la guerra civil española. MANUEL DELGADO of destruction of religious artefacts common at that time, the local anti-fascist committee refused to hand over an object of special value: the shrine that, even today, continues to hold the relics of the Holy Doubt (Sant Dubte), a miracle recorded more than nine centuries earlier involving the mystical truth of Eucharistic transubstantiation. The history of this profanation attempt and the relic’s subsequent fate give us an insight into the way in which modernity has struggled to disable the power of ritual to transcend the symbolic sphere, and to become effective in 20th-century Spain and beyond. Es a partir de la década de 1430 que el culto a la reliquia de la Santa Duda se extiende por toda la comarca y centra todo tipo de peregrinaciones y actos multitudinarios, hasta ahora mismo, en el que el actual santuario de Santa María de Ivorra —levantado en 1663 y en el curso de cuyas obras fueron desenterradas nuevas reliquias— conoce dos solemnidades anuales en honor de la reliquia: el segundo Domingo de Pascua y el 16 de agosto
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