Starry to light
- Born September 11, 1918 The star, the flag with a Catalan star, first appeared in an inscription print. What says Catalonia (What Catalonia says) was a leaflet in English aimed at the allied countries that won the First World War, mainly the United States.
The page contains part of the Treaty of Utrecht (1715), along with statements by the President of the United States, Wilson, and the King of England, among others. In the end, before the layoffs of “Hurrah for the Entente!”, “Glory to Wilson!” and “Jutice!”, I asked the allies to amend the Treaty of Utrecht. On the top, on the left, it had the star printed, and on the bottom, on the right, it had the American flag. The Pro Catalunya Committee (Pro Catalunya Committee) or Pro Catalunya Committee (Catalan Committee) published the separate page in the Diada.
The design of the flag, for its part, was the work of Vicenç Albert Ballester (1872-1938).He worked in commercial navigation and was a militant of the National Union. The work led several times to Cuba at the end of the 19th century and in 1898, when Cuba achieved independence, Ballester was there. To give an example to this process of independence, in the design of the star had a new flag of the Republic of Cuba: to those four typical red lines of the senyera added a blue triangle and a five-pointed white star. However, despite printing and publishing for the first time 100 years ago, we don't know exactly how many years ago the design was made. Some sources indicate that it was founded in 1903, in Santiago de Cuba.
There is a photograph that was made in Paris in 1908, at the headquarters of the Catalan Nationalist Lliga, in which a senyera with stars appears. But photography isn't Ballester's design: at the heart of the flag, it has a rhombus and, inside it, a star. The oldest flag with the traditional design of the star – or part of it, as you can see in the photo – has it in the Museum of History of Catalonia and is dated 1915. It is believed that he was led by Catalan volunteers who fought in World War I.
These flags are soft or blue stars with blue triangle and white star. The green or yellow star has a yellow triangle, a red star and a left touch. Another year the grog celebrates its anniversary as it was founded in 1968 by the Socialist Party d’Alliberament Nacional. Then the PCE put the red triangle, the green sectors, the green triangle ...
But the leaflet distributed in that Diada a century ago also had a Catalan version and, curiously, on that page was included a simple senyera, without stars. According to the Museum of History of Catalonia: “Star was a provisional flag, because the founders favoured using the final senyera after independence.”
Walk from a train station, two friends and a hug. This hug will be frozen until the next meeting. I'll come home, he'll stay there. There, too, will be free the painful feeling that injustice wants us to catch. Jesús Rodríguez (Santa Coloma de Gramenet, 1974) is a journalist,... [+]
