CONGREGATION AND SECULAR CLERGY SEMINAR MISSION OF OUR LADY OF HOMELESS SANTISÍSIMA Belchite (ZARAGOZA). FOREWORD
The traveler who approaches Belchite the south, you come out to meet the edge of the road, brick ruins, the remains apparently of a chapel of considerable dimensions. They are a preliminary dantesta vision offered by the old town, such as scars of a turbulent chapter of our recent past. The traveler may be difficult to suspect that the ruins of the church of the seminar and that together they lift a magnificent building, which at the time of its erection, in the eighteenth century, was considered one of the best in the Kingdom.
razed the building, can be also destroyed her memory in our fragile memory. Julio Martín Blasco, a love of their land belchitano has patiently strung together a dossier that we inherited from our ancestors to bring to light the glorious days of Belchite villa in the century comiezos XVIII,
These pages help to remove an institution from oblivion, the Congregation of Priests missions, which flourished and had a great influence not only in Aragon, where he was born, but also in other English dioceses.
It is in the early eighteenth century, in reaction to the negative consequences of Succession war had left in the Christian life, when a movement arose in Aragon renewal through small groups of priests, called priestly seminars. A priest Huesca, Francisco Ferrer will be a flagship of the movement that began in the Diocese of Barbastro and soon spread to all Aragon dioceses. In the diocese of Zaragoza, the Archbishop Don Manuel Perez de Araciel generously turned the foundation of the priestly seminary Belchite, but death overtook him without seeing the coronation of the plans proposed.
secular priests at Mission Seminary of Our Lady of Abandoned been applied Julio Martín Blasco in a rigorous and thorough. It is appreciated the author's determination to deal with a number of challenges, brought the desire and willingness to contribute new data to help recover we know the vicissitudes of the new foundation, prosperous and adverse events, their lives, men and their buildings.
readers will appreciate, not doubt, this contribution to our historical past where he also appreciates the importance of priestly seminaries were in the eighteenth century to the preparation and renewal of the clergy. Javier CALVO
SOUR CHERRIES OLD VERSES 
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