HUESCA, DIOCESE OF. - A city and diocese in the homonymous province in Spain, suffragan of Zaragoza. The diocese covers an area of 5,026 sq. km. and has 110,100 inhabitants, of whom 110,000 are Catholics distributed across 196 parishes served by 125 diocesan priests and 92 regular clergy, 13 male religious communities and 44 female religious communities (1949). The Seminary, founded by Bishop Trago in 1597, was restored and expanded several times, especially in 1924.
reasons of friendship and fall within the profound and broad interest he had in religious matters. Evident in his writings is the influence of Newman. On the one hand, in reaction to modernist "immanence," he emphasizes the absolute transcendence of God, and on the other, following Newman (and not far from Blondel’s position), he maintains that precisely the objective fact of Revelation (absolutely supernatural) presupposes in man a "predisposition" to receive from God the grace that, however, remains entirely gratuitous. In other words, human nature is predisposed to the supernatural (Blondel would say it is in a state of "transnaturality"), but this predisposition is by no means necessitating, and grace remains a free gift of God.
H. worked for about 30 years on *The Mystical Element of Religion as Studied in St. Catherine of Genoa and Her Friends* (2 vols., London 1908; 2nd ed., ibid. 1923); and he dealt with eternal life with the depth of a great mystic in *Eternal Life: A Study of Its Implications and Applications* (Edinburgh 1912; 2nd ed., ibid. 1913). In his old age, he collected his numerous articles, some of great importance, scattered in American and European journals (English, French, Italian) in the volume (dedicated to his "fellow citizen Dante") *Essays and Addresses on the Philosophy of Religion* (2 vols., London 1921–24). Published posthumously were the volume *The Reality of God* (ibid. 1931), considered by some his principal work, and the *Selected Letters* (ibid. 1927, ed. B. Holland), an extremely interesting documentation for the history of modernism.