ANALECTA SACRA TARRACONENSIA. - Journal of ecclesiastical sciences, begun in 1925 in Barcelona by the «Biblioteca Balmes», a center of higher religious culture created by the association «Foment de pietat catalana». Its founder, Father Ignasi Casanovas (1872-1936), conceived it as an annual, intended to include studies in various sacred disciplines and the chronicle of the institution; from 1928, he introduced a systematic bibliography. In 1932, the publication took on the character of a journal, with several issues per year, in a reduced format, and was directed by the priest José Vives. It now tends to limit itself to the treatment of ecclesiastical history, particularly for the states of the Crown of Aragon.
BIBL.: Obras del P. Casanovas, I. Barcelona 1943 (with biography by P. M. Battilori), pp. 137-42.