Josep Bocabella, a Barcelona bookseller and printer, founded the Josephites (association of devotees of St. Joseph), and after visiting Rome's Basilica of St. Peter and the Sanctuary of Loretto in the late 1860s, decided to replicate their majesty in Barcelona by purchasing land in the Eixample district in 1881.
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“my research led me to a book seller named babella...who founded the association of devotees of St Joseph...in 1881 he bought this plot of land in The aample District in Barcelona”
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