Fray Octavi, in the Cathedral of Hope

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Fray Octavi, in the Cathedral of Hope

The diocese of Girona has experienced a long time of waiting and orphanhood. Two years without a bishop. No one knew why. There was a fatalistic argument: “Girona is a very difficult diocese: several candidates have resigned”. In the years when Catholicism was a hegemonic religion, being a bishop had many worldly incentives. The long-awaited Miquel Pairolí evokes in the novel Cera the relief enjoyed by Bishop Cartanyà, whose funeral procession c…