 | “A flea once infected has very little prospect of future happiness”. The entrance to Saint Agatha’s Chapel, where priests went daily to collect the sacramental bread to give the last rites to those dying of bubonic plague during the Barcelona epidemic that broke out in 1651. This is the story of Alexandre Yersin, the great River Ebro, and the Parets family living in a time of pestilence, famine and war.   |