* The authors are part of the community of La Vanguardia readers
In 1958 my father opened a restaurant called Jardines de Pedralbes, which was on Carretera de Esplugues number 47, very close to the Pedralbes monastery in Barcelona.
After the inauguration, they met a company in the town of Sarral, in the Conca de Barberà region (Tarragona), where there were alabaster quarries.
There he commissioned this shield that we see portrayed in The Photos of the Readers of La Vanguardia once later placed in the Pedralbes monastery.
And when the shield arrived they had it displayed at the entrance of the restaurant, until the Ronda de Dalt was built. Due to this work, the restaurant had to close due to the modification of the Esplugues Highway, which became much wider.
This would be around 1988. My father kept it in his house and, in 1999, I recovered it. I kept it too, until on one of my visits to the monastery I offered it to the community of Poor Clare nuns because I understood that it would be more effective if it were where it is now installed.
