📖 About Pascual
Pascual is the Spanish form of Pascal (from Latin Paschalis, 'of Easter'), honoured in Spain through San Pascual Bailón and given extraordinary literary weight by Camilo José Cela's Nobel-winning novel La familia de Pascual Duarte (1942), which relaunched Spanish fiction after the Civil War.
📍 Details
- OriginSpanish/Latin
- Gender♂ Male
- MeaningVariant of Pascal. Born at Easter
🔀 Variants & Related Names
⭐ Famous People
- Pascual Duarte (fictional) — Fictional narrator-protagonist of La familia de Pascual Duarte (1942) by Camilo José Cela; a poor Extremaduran peasant who narrates his life of violence and poverty from his prison cell while awaiting execution; the novel relaunched Spanish literary fiction after the Civil War and is one of the defining works of 20th-century Spanish literature.
- Camilo José Cela — Spanish novelist (1916–2002), winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1989; creator of Pascual Duarte, his debut novel changed the course of Spanish literature; his later works include The Hive (La colmena, 1951) and Journey to the Alcarria (1948); he was awarded the Cervantes Prize and is considered the most important Spanish prose writer of the postwar generation.
- San Pascual Bailón — Spanish Franciscan friar (1540–1592), born in Torre Hermosa, Aragon; patron saint of Eucharistic congresses and associations worldwide, proclaimed by Pope Leo XIII in 1897; his profound Eucharistic devotion and deep humility made him one of the most beloved saints in the Valencian and Aragonese regions of Spain, where the name Pascual has been traditionally honoured in his memory.
- Pascual Maragall — Spanish Socialist politician (1941–2021), Mayor of Barcelona (1982–1997) who oversaw the transformation of the city for the 1992 Summer Olympics — widely regarded as the most successful Olympic urban regeneration in history — and later President of the Generalitat of Catalonia (2003–2006); one of the defining political figures of post-Franco democratic Spain.