Chapter 7

PURGATORY--Deliverance from by devotions of 142 survivors--Those devotions described--Difference between dogma of purgatory and other dogmas--Modes of drawing out souls--Masses for the dead--Legacies to pay for them--External representations of images and pictures--Day of All Souls and its practices--The Andalusian Confraternity of Souls--_Mandas piadosas_--Debtor and creditor account between the church and purgatory--How balanced--Bull of Composition--Soul-days--_Responses_--_Cepillo_, or alms-box--Financial operation--Origin of bills of exchange and clearing house--Wax Candles--Their efficacy--Cenotaphs--Summary of funds, and reflections on their misapplication