The Jumillana Cultural Association, based in Barcelona, ​​December 15 this year to January 15, 2016, exhibited in several parishes and institutions of the emblematic Barcelona neighborhood of Poble Sec, various painting and craft works whose authors are internal in prisons in the Spanish territory involved in the Phoenix Project Prisoners of Fine Arts and Crafts milites jumillanos Christi, disciplines in which prisoners are a stimulus to boost their self-esteem, creativity, and exhibitions outside the prison compound an added value to their reintegration.
The event, which already took place last year with remarkable success among the neighborhood of the Catalan capital, parishes are added, and with the participation of the Templar Association of Jumilla (Murcia) that will display in the church of Santa Madrona (s XIX), where the bulk of the prison exhibition, one of his most famous works, fine wood carving of Santa María de Gracia, virgin banner Catalan Aragonese King James I the Conqueror, King raised by the Templars will be located.
The work is the Catalan Rollán, intern in 2012 in the penitentiary Ponent (Lleida), which despite lacking birth his left hand, the measures could take form, color and style of virgins Templar with great fidelity based on a poor photocopy of it was the patron saint of Jumilla.
Source: Associació Cultural Jumillana