Church of the Sagrat Cor (Jesuits c. Casp)
The church of the Sagrat Cor (Sacred Heart), located at Casp street, in Barcelona, inside the school complex of the Jesuits, is the work of architects Joan Martorell Montells and Camil Oliveras Gensana. It was built between 1883 and 1889. Its artistic style, which can be described as pre-modernist, is monumentalist, historicist and has a strong Romanesque and Byzantine influence.
Inside the church there is the sword attributed to be the one that Ignatius of Loyola left in 1522 as a votive offering to Montserrat just before establishing himself in Manresa, where he wrote Spiritual Exercises. The church reached the church of the Sagrat Cor de Jesús in 1907 and it was placed in the Saint Ignatius alter in an urn of golden bronze made by Bernadí Martorell Puig, winner of the design competition headed by Antoni Gaudí.
