Born in Vich ( in catalan 41 Vic; city of about 42,000 inhabitants, located to the northeast of Barcelona in the Catalan community, which already existed in pre-Roman Hispania in the 4th century b.c. with the name of Ausa, capital of the tribe of the ausetans. Destroyed in the 826 was rebuilt with Wilfred the hairy in the 878 taking the name of Vicus Ausonae, suburb of magazine Ausona, from which derives the new name. Here was born the philosopher and theologian of the century XIX Jaime Balmes, author of the criterion.
