Ramon Llull — Santuari de Cura (Illes Balears), Spain - Dead Poets' Society Memorials on Waymarking.com

Ramon Llull, the son of a Catalan knight, was born into a wealthy family in Palma. In 1263 he had a religious epiphany in which he saw Christ crucified next to him. Llull radically changed his life, he became a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis and travelled as a missionary through the entire Mediterranean region.
Llull lived as a hermit and worked for almost ten years here at the monastery Santuari de Nostra Senyora de Cura. He wrote romantic novels, about religion, art, alchemy and botany, philosophy and logic, influenced by three cultures: the Christian, the Islamic and the Jewish. His Works like Llibre de contemplació en Déu, Llibre d'amic e amat and Ars generalis ultima had influenced many philosophers and writers even in later centuries. During his lifetime, the lessons of the Lull were controversial. The Roman Church has long set him on the Index of prohibited books.
He wrote most of his over 280 works in Latin and Catalan. The romantic novel Blanquerna was the first major work of literature written in Catalan. Therefore, he became the founder of Catalan literature.
At the age of 82, in 1314, Ramon Llull traveled again to North Africa and an angry crowd of Muslims stoned him in the city of Béjaïa in present-day northern Algeria. Genoese merchants took him back to Mallorca where he died at home in Palma the next year. Within the Catholic Church he is honoured as a martyr, he was beatified in 1857 by Pope Pius IX.

The statue, made of stone on a limestone base, stands in the courtyard of the monastery Santuari de Nostra Senyora de Cura. It shows an elderly wise man with pen and paper role, looking into the distance. The Statue is not signed and dated.

source: Centre de Documentació Ramon Llull