Category: History - European
THE SPANISH CLERGY--Their primitive state--Their 31 subsequent organization--_Barraganas_--Immoral practices of the clergy--Their wealth, and its sources--Their territorial possessions--Their influence and incomes--Their opposition to the sciences--Their ultramontane principle...
THE SPANISH CLERGY--Their primitive state--Their 31 subsequent organization--_Barraganas_--Immoral practices of the clergy--Their wealth, and its sources--Their territorial poss...
2. Chapter 2MONACHISM--The superiority of the monastic over the 47 secular clergy--Reasons for it--Orders of Monks--The Carthusians--Their advancement in agriculture, and love of the fine a...
3. Chapter 3CELIBACY AND MORALS--Illicit relations formed by the 73 clergy--Shameless avowal of their fruits--Ferocious character of love in the cloisters--Three flagrant cases--Murder of a...
4. Chapter 4THE MASS--Its introduction but modern--The Spaniard Lainez 87 opposed it--On what grounds--Description of the ceremony--Its religious and secular peculiarities--Sacerdotal vestm...
5. Chapter 5DEVOTION of Protestants scriptural and reasonable--That of 102 Roman Catholics poetical and affectionate--Religious enthusiasm leads to insanity--Mental devotion as distinguishe...
6. Chapter 6FEAST-DAYS--Processions and Novenas--Corpus Christi--How 122 performed in Seville, and the sacred dances of _los seises_--How in Madrid--Procession of Holy Week--The _Santo Enti...
7. Chapter 7PURGATORY--Deliverance from by devotions of 142 survivors--Those devotions described--Difference between dogma of purgatory and other dogmas--Modes of drawing out souls--Masses...
8. Chapter 8AURICULAR CONFESSION--A sacrament inseparable from that of 152 communion--Obligatory on all once a year--Plan of discovering defaulters--How punished--Evils of confession--Power...
9. Chapter 9FASTS AND PENANCES--How observed--Indulgences--Spain is 170 privileged by the Bull of the Holy Crusade--Description of that bull--Prices of copies--Commissary-General of Crusade...
10. Chapter 10FALSE MIRACLES, RELICS, AND RELIGIOUS 187 IMPOSITIONS--Veneration of crucifixes and statues or images--Their power of healing--Picture at Cadiz--_Lignum Crucis_--Veronica--Bodie...
11. Chapter 11THE SPANISH CLERGY--Their primitive state--Their subsequent organization--_Barraganas_--Immoral practices of the clergy--Their wealth, and its sources--Their territorial possess...
12. Chapter 12MONACHISM--The superiority of the monastic over the secular clergy--Reasons for it--Orders of monks--The Carthusians--Their advancement in agriculture and love of the fine arts-...
13. Chapter 13CELIBACY AND MORALS.--Illicit relations formed by the clergy--Shameless avowal of their fruits--Ferocious character of love in the cloisters--Three flagrant cases--Murder of a y...
14. Chapter 14THE MASS--Its introduction but modern--The Spaniard Lainez opposed it--On what grounds--Description of the ceremony--Its religious and secular peculiarities--Sacerdotal vestment...
15. Chapter 15DEVOTION of Protestants scriptural and reasonable--That of Roman Catholics poetical and affectionate--Religious enthusiasm leads to insanity--Mental devotion as distinguished fr...
16. Chapter 16FEAST-DAYS--Processions and Novenas--Corpus Christi--How performed in Seville, and the sacred dances of _los seises_--How in Madrid--Procession of Holy Week--The _Santo Entierro...
17. Chapter 17PURGATORY--Deliverance from by devotions of survivors--Those devotions described--Difference between dogma of purgatory and other dogmas--Modes of drawing out souls--Masses for...
18. Chapter 18Auricular Confession, a sacrament inseparable from that of communion--Obligatory on all once a-year--Plan of discovering defaulters--How punished--Evils of confession--Power of...
19. Chapter 19FASTS AND PENANCES--How observed--Indulgences--Spain is privileged by the Bull of the Holy Crusade--Description of that bull--Prices of copies--Commissary-General of Crusades--H...
20. Chapter 20FALSE MIRACLES, RELICS, AND RELIGIOUS IMPOSITIONS--Veneration of crucifixes and statues or images--Their power of healing--Picture at Cadiz--_Lignum Crucis_--Veronica--Bodies of...