Una Voce Malaga reports on its blog (which is now in the Rorate blogroll) that on January 15, 2011, Manuel Urena Pastor, Archbishop of Zaragoza (or Saragossa) in Spain, offered a Solemn Requiem Mass according to the 1962 Missal in the Parish Church of Santa Maria la Mayor, Epila, Zaragoza. This is the first Mass according to the 1962 Missal to be said by a canonically-regular Catholic bishop in Spain itself, since the promulgation of Summorum Pontificum.
Judging from the pictures, the Archbishop offered the Solemn Requiem Mass in the manner of a priest.
Judging from the pictures, the Archbishop offered the Solemn Requiem Mass in the manner of a priest.
On July 2010, the same Archbishop had presided over the reburial of the remains of the family of the Count of Aranda, giving him the distinction of being the first bishop in Spain to preside post-Summorum over a ceremony done according to the pre-Vatican II liturgical books.
A few other Spanish prelates had offered or assisted at Masses according to the 1962 Missal after the promulgation of Summorum Pontificum, but none of these were in Spain itself.
