Catalan bishops call for return to Aragon works of religious art in “La Franja”

Lleida.- The Catalan bishops have called for this Friday in a statement that they comply with the Vatican about the litigation that keep Catalunya and Aragon over the ownership of the works of sacred art from the Fringe (La Franja), which would return parts found in Lleida.

The bishops “call for to fulfill the decisions of the Holy See ” and therefore that the works be returned to the Bishopric of Barbastro, which has already asked the Vatican in February 2009 in a letter made by the Vatican Secretariat of State and that sent the bishop of Lleida, Joan Piris.

The statement, the result of 197th meeting held by the Catalan bishops over the past three days in the bosom of the Episcopal Conference, Tarragona, recognizes the “complexity of the issue” and notes that the conflict is at this moment under the jurisdiction of civil courts.

The Government, meanwhile, has always defended the existing Catalan law in Lleida preserves the heritage from the Aragonese churches because its acquisition was a legitimate and the property is “documented.”

The Bishop of Lleida, however, already made public in 2010 its decision not to go to court to defend property, in a process initiated by the Association of Friends of the Museum of Lleida.

Catalan bishops called for in the statement that the agreed solution to be found “always respected the sharing of cultural and religious heritage born to the praise of God and catechesis of the faithful” and advocates that it is to put “the service of all. “

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