He was a Falangist and an officer on the rebel side in the Civil War. But he was also a judge of exemplary conduct, described as "a true gentleman" by one of those arrested in a raid against the clandestine opposition, and who ordered what was probably the first exhumation of a victim of the 1936 Civil War in the entire country. A man of broad cultural interests, founder and first parish priest of the Estudi General Lul·lià, he resumed his university studies in the Balearic Islands. We remember Gerard Maria Thomàs on the fortieth anniversary of his death, on December 11, 1985.