Charitable Society of the Natives from Catalonia

Charitable Society of the Natives from Catalonia
Founded 1840[1]
Type NPO, social help, cultural institution
Location
Area served
 Cuba
Members
 1.400
Pantheon of the Charitable Society of the Natives from Catalonia in the Cemetery of Colón of the Havana

Charitable Society of the Natives from Catalonia (catalan: Societat de Beneficència de Naturals de Catalunya), also known how the Casal Català or the Beneficencia Catalana,[2] is an association of charity founded by the Catalan emigration in the Havana, Cuba, on 1840.[3][4]

Overview

Thoughtful the entity of social help more ancient of the world, was founded by 102 Catalans directed by Antoni Font i Guasch and Josep Gener i Guasch.[3][5] It appeared to help to the Catalans that did not do fortune and remained into the Cuban capital; that began to be numerous since the independence of Cuba the 1900.

With the passing of years, the Beneficència Catalan incorporated to the function assistencial that gave him origin, activities of cultural and festive brink. With more than 1.400 partners, promotes different activities related with Catalonia as habaneres, celebration of Sant Jordi, esbart dansaire, puntaires, reading of poetry, concerts and projections of films.[1] Although his main activity is the economic support to the partners that need it.[5]

Another of his objectives is the maintenance of the hermitage of Montserrate that was planned to be installed in the square of the Revolution in the last years of the Government of Fulgencio Batista, but that finally built, to finals of the 50 in a farm near of the airport of the Havana. It is a reply of the church of S'Agaró and houses a copy of the Virgin of Montserrat.[5]

With more than 170 years of history has of a bequeathed documentary económic and social of Catalan emigrants of Cuba and has received guardons of the Institute of Catalan Studies, of the Generality of Catalonia and the Cross of Sant Jordi the 1993.[6]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Independentista a l'Havana" (in Catalan). La Vanguardia. 22 September 2015: 6.
  2. ↑ Joan Casanovas (15 November 1998). Bread Or Bullets: Urban Labor and Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, 1850–1898. University of Pittsburgh Pre. pp. 54–. ISBN 978-0-8229-7194-8.
  3. 1 2 Moisés Llordén Miñambres; Fernando Devoto (1995). Acerca de las migraciones centroeuropeas y mediterráneas a Iberoamérica: aspectos sociales y culturales (in Spanish). Universidad de Oviedo. pp. 153–. ISBN 978-84-7468-867-2.
  4. ↑ Juan Andrés Blanco Rodríguez (2008). El asociacionismo en la emigración española a América (in Spanish). UNED Centro Asoc. de Zamora. pp. 57–58. ISBN 978-84-936871-0-6.
  5. 1 2 3 Hernández, Óscar (28 June 2015). "Empremta catalana a l'Havana" [Catalan footprint in Havana] (in Catalan). El Periodico de Catalunya. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  6. ↑ "Més de 10.000 imatges digitals de La Societat de Beneficència de Naturals de Catalunya a L'Havana ingressen a l'Arxiu Nacional de Catalunya" (in Catalan). Generalitat de Catalunya. 11 June 2015. Retrieved 22 September 2015.

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