About Joan Vilar i Costa
Lived 1889 – 1962 (aged 72–73). Joan Vilar i Costa was a Spanish librarian.
Joan Vilar i Costa (1889–1962) was an ecclesiastical writer. He joined the Jesuits and was librarian of the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. Leaving that position, he joined the diocesan clergy.
Costa was born in Manresa. During the Spanish Civil War, he was a senior official of the government's Propaganda Commission.
In exile he exercised a popular ministry. He died in Toulouse.
He published Als Catalans (1944) which advocated debate and elections for future Catalan national reconstruction.
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Ecclesiastical writer
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Joan Vilar i Costa was born in 1889 in Manresa.
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Joan Vilar i Costa died in 1962 in Toulouse.
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Joan Vilar i Costa was a librarian.
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Joan Vilar i Costa was Spanish.
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