Arnau de Gurb (in

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, ''Arnoldo de Guerbo'') was

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from 1252 to 1284. He had served as a

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at the cathedral of

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and later as primary

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. As bishop, he expanded the episcopal palace, and built the Chapel of Santa Llúcia (

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) in the cathedral of Barcelona. With

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, he participated in the conquest of the

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. He served as

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to the

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court. He was close with Saint Raymond of Peñafort and promoted the cult of the

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. He participated in the

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had appointed a

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commission to remove the passages perceived offensive from the

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.Grätz, l.c. vii. 121-124 (from the Jewish Encyclopedia) It consisted of De Gurb,

Raymond de Peñafort Raymond of Penyafort ( ca, Sant Ramon de Penyafort, ; es, San Raimundo de Peñafort; 1175 – 6 January 1275) was a Catalan Dominican friar in the 13th century, who compiled the Decretals of Gregory IX, a collection of canonical laws tha ...

, and the Dominicans Arnoldo de Segarra, Pedro de Janua and

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(author of ''Pugio Fidei''). His body rests in a

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in the Chapel of Santa Llúcia in the

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