13 Facts About Jacint Verdaguer

Jacint Verdaguer was known as mossen Cinto Verdaguer, because of his career as a priest, and informally simply "mossen Cinto".

Jacint Verdaguer was born in Folgueroles, a town on the Plain of Vic, in the comarca of Osona to a modest family who valued learning.

Jacint Verdaguer's mother, Josepa Santalo i Planes, a housewife and farmer, was to exercise great influence over young Jacint, as she conveyed to him a love of literature, especially poetry, and was a deeply religious woman.

Jacint Verdaguer was the third of eight children, only three of whom survived.

Jacint Verdaguer displayed a balanced attitude without any apparent religious inclinations.

In 1864, while a seminary student at the Seminari de Vic, Verdaguer wrote his first published poem Als estudiants.

Jacint Verdaguer was influenced in this endeavour by the popularity of a similar satirical decima, Entusiasme d'un estudiant per la cresta written by fellow seminary student Andreu Garriga in 1863.

Jacint Verdaguer left Vinyoles d'Oris for health reasons and moved to Vic.

Jacint Verdaguer went on a trip to Roussillon and saw the mountain, El Canigo, possibly for the first time.

On board the "Ciudad Condal", on the return voyage from Cuba, Jacint Verdaguer finished his epic poem L'Atlantida.

At the age of 39, Jacint Verdaguer traveled to Paris, Switzerland, Germany and Russia.

Jacint Verdaguer published the epic poem Canigo and made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

Jacint Verdaguer was depicted on the Spanish 1971 500 Pesetas banknote.