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Among the shells, keys and circles on this Coronation door there are also lines of poetry. On the lower right section Subirachs engraved verses from Salvador Espriu’s book La pell de brau, including the sentence in Catalan that begins A vegades és necessari i forçós que un home mori per un poble, a meditation on political sacrifice written under the Franco regime. Elsewhere on the same door a short passage from Dante’s Divine Comedy appears, so that a medieval Italian vision of judgement stands beside a twentieth century Catalan protest poem and the Passion narrative from John’s Gospel. In a single panel of bronze, Christian theology, local memory and literary history are folded into the story of Christ’s humiliation.