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Francisco de Asís Vidal y Barraquer (October 3, 1868 – September 13, 1943) was a Spanish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Tarragona from 1919 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1921. He famously refused to sign the 1937 Collective Letter in which the Spanish Church's hierarchy gave their support to Francisco Franco's forces,〔(Payne, Stanley G. ''The Franco regime, 1936-1975'' ) at Google Books〕 and died in exile in Switzerland. ==Biography== Born in Cambrils to a family of rural landowners and liberal professionals, Francisco Vidal y Barraquer attended the ''Colegio San Ignacio'' in Manresa (1880–1885), earned his ''bachillerato'' at the seminary in Barcelona (1885), and then practiced law for a year after studying at the Law Faculty of Barcelona. He entered the Seminary of Tarragona in 1895, and was ordained to the priesthood on September 17, 1899. On September 24, 1900, Vidal obtained his doctorate in law from the University of Madrid. He sought to join the Society of Jesus, more commonly known as the Jesuits, but his father asked Francisco to finish a career first. Vidal then did pastoral work in Tarragona, as well as serving as fiscal (1905), provisor and acting vicar general (1905–1909) in its archdiocesan curia. He was a canon of Tarragona's cathedral chapter from 1907 to 1913, vicar general from 1909 to 1913, archpriest in 1910, and vicar capitular from October 1911 until his promotion to the episcopate. On November 10, 1913, Vidal was appointed Apostolic Administrator of Solsona and Titular Bishop of ''Pentacomia''. He received his episcopal consecration on April 26, 1914 from Archbishop Antolín López Peláez, with Bishops Ramón Barberá y Boada and Ramón Guillamet y Coma serving as co-consecrators, in the cathedral of Tarragona. He was Senator of the Spanish kingdom for the province of Tarragona from 1914 to 1916, and renounced the mitre of Cádiz to help calm the political and social tensions of Catalonia. Vidal was later Archbishop of Tarragona on May 7, 1919. Pope Benedict XV created him Cardinal Priest of ''Santa Sabina'' in the consistory of March 7, 1921. Vidal was one of the cardinal electors in the 1922 papal conclave, which selected Pope Pius XI, and later rejected Pope Pius's offer of the primatial see of Toledo. He also refused appointments to Zaragoza and to the Roman Curia. Following the Republican government's exile of Cardinal Pedro Segura y Sáenz, Vidal became the leading prelate of the Spanish Church. He made fruitless attempts to mitigate the dispositions of the constitutional project which affected the rights of the Church, and to have the Vatican accept Luis Zulueta y Escolano as its Spanish ambassador. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Francisco Vidal y Barraquer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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