Creu d’Amunt

Creu d’Amunt

Formerly located on the road from sa Pobla to Ciutat. The first stone cross was built around the year 1500. In 1851, another wooden cross was built on the old base, which did not last long.

In 1923, the newly built cross was placed on Major Street with a metal Christ figure. In front of this cross, on the occasion of the Holy Cross festival, the crops that the farmers of sa Pobla harvested in sa Marjal were blessed in the past. Local Authors. History and literature: He lived near Major Street.

In 1929, he went to the parish of his hometown – sa Pobla – as a resident. This situation lasted until 1948 when he moved permanently to the City. Mosén Bonnín Forteza was born into a humble family.

They had a clothing store, and this fact would identify him in the future as the 'capellà Robes.' Notes for a biography of Father Miquel Bonnín (1900-1985). By Joan Vidal i Bibiloni Franciscan TOR The generation before 1918 did not sleep in beds but in haylofts, in the attic, the girls perhaps on a mat in a corner over the room. The only bedroom with a Christ or a virgin at the head was the study.

A small loft over the kitchen with a low ceiling was usually where the couple or a sick family member slept. Life and martyrdom of Sor Catalina del Carmen Caldés (1899-1936) By Joan Pons i Payeres, priest.