Yesterday, Xirinachs was found in a forest in the Pyrenees. Xirinachs gave his life to counteract the cowardice of the Catalan leaders. He was a priest and also a senator but he was very popular as an anti-Franco fighter, during the transition, and an active independentist of the Catalan Countries. From this Blog I want to thanks everything. Today we are a little freerer thanks to him.

After to be found in Ogassa (Girona), the next letter was discovered in his office.

I have lived seventy-five years as a slave
in settled down Catalan Countries
by Spain, France (and for Italy)
since centuries ago.

I have lived fighting against this slavery
all the years of my adult life.
A slave nation, like an individual slave,
is a shame of the humanity and of the universe.

But a nation will never be free
if their sons do not want to risk their life
in its liberation and defense.

You, my friends, accept to me that victorious end
of my fight,
to counteract the cowardice,
of our leaders, people-overcrowders.

Today my nation becomes absolute sovereign in me.
They have lost a slave.
My nation is a little freer,
because I am in you, my friends!

Lluís M. Xirinacs i Damians

Barcelona, August 6th, 2007
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Original letter (in Catalan)

He viscut esclau setanta-cinc anys
en uns Països Catalans
ocupats per Espanya, per França (i per Itàlia)
des de fa segles.

He viscut lluitant contra aquesta esclavitud
tots els anys de la meva vida adulta.
Una nació esclava, com un individu esclau,
és una vergonya de la humanitat i de l’univers.

Però una nació mai no serà lliure
si els seus fills no volen arriscar
llur vida en el seu alliberament i defensa.

Amics, accepteu-me
aquest final absolut victoriós
de la meva contesa,
per contrapuntar la covardia
dels nostres líders, massificadors del poble.

Avui la meva nació
esdevé sobirana absoluta en mi.
Ells han perdut un esclau.
ella és una mica més lliure,
perquè jo sóc en vosaltres, amics!

Lluís M. Xirinacs i Damians

Barcelona, 6 d’agost de 2007