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Church of Santa Cruz in Madrid
Hiring of a group of minstrels by the confraternity of the Holy Sacrament of the church of Santa Cruz in Madrid (1631)

On 10 October 1631, the confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament of the church of Santa …

May 26, 2024
Little cloister. Monastery of the Cartuja in Granada
Francisco Guerrero in the treatise Historia y origen de la música y canto llano by Juan Sánchez Vidal (1755)

In the middle of the 18th century, the figure of Francisco Guerrero was still highly …

May 24, 2024
Church of the Monastery of Descalzas Reales
Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of Descalzas Reales in Madrid (1708)

Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of Descalzas Reales in …

May 22, 2024
Signature of Diego López
Contracts of Diego Lopez and Enrique Franco for the tuning and maintenance of the organs in Seville Cathedral (1594)

On 3 September 1594, the organ builders Diego López and Enrique Franco signed the notarial …

May 19, 2024

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Holy Week Processions in Madrid (1804-1816)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
11-10-2022

A series of documents from the Consejo section of the Archivo Histórico Nacional, corresponding to the years 1808, 1809, 1810, 1815 and 1816, allow us to study the changes that …

Holy Week procession Miserere mei Deus (psalm 51) bustle in the street street music open confraternities closed confraternities penitential confraternities Marian confraternities confraternities with avocations to saints rosary confraternities confraternities project Carlos IV (king) Consejo de Castilla Luis María de Borbón y Vallabriga (cardinal, archibishop) clergy brothers guild of market gardeners congregation of the Vara Porters of the Mayors' Hall friars Order of Dominicans Order of Minims Order of Discalced Trinitarians Order of the Discalced Carmelites music chapel crowd confraternity of the Irish confraternity of the Slaves of Jesus Nazarene confraternity of Our Lady of Solitude and Anguish brotherhood of Our Lady of Solitude, Saint Francis of Paola and Holy Rosary convent of Santo Tomas (Dominicans) chuch of Santa María de Gracia convent of El Carmen Calzado (Calced Carmelites) convent and hospital of Nuestra Señora del Amor de Dios (Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God) convent of Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación (Discalced Trinitarians) church of San Sebastián convent of Nuestra Señora de la Victoria (Minims of Saint Francis of Paola) plaza Mayor Guadalajara gate Platería street Palace arch (= Armoury arch) Nueva street (= Bailén) Palace of the Marquis of Grimaldi (= palace of Manuel Godoy) Corito street (= Torija) Santo Domingo square street of Postigo de San Martín (= Jacometrezo) Montera street puerta del Sol Carretas street Atocha street Santa Cruz street Tesoro street Encarnación square Encarnación street (= de la Bola) Santiago street colleage of San Patricio (Irisch people)
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