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"Master Builder, engineer, writer and poet in press, promoter of our festivals and one of the main promoters of the reconstruction of the shrine of the patron saint of the city, the Virgin of Fuensanta".
With these words defined the Mayor, Miguel Angel House, the figure of Joseph Joy Nicholas (Torreagüera, 1870-1948), in the book about his life that was presented this afternoon at CajaMurcia work of Mariano C.
Pelegrin.
The event was also the intervention of a great-granddaughter of Joy, Fuensanta Sigler.
The Mayor pointed out that Murcia has had, throughout its history, and illustrious favorite sons have combined their "love for this land with an absolute dedication to enriching their culture and traditions."
Among them, House has stressed the trajectory of Joy, which qualifies as "the astonishing biography of a man who loved his land and gave him the best years of his life."
Among the many occupations that developed over his life, Joseph Joy was also an academician of the Royal Academy Alfonso X the Wise and the Royal Academy of History in Madrid, as well as president of the board of the Museum of Fine Arts.
Man grown in various arts, his interest in Murcia's permitted to gather one of the first private collections huertanos objects of which the news.
In addition, the Municipal Archives of Murcia received the donation of his famous Murcia issues library.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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