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Plaza de la Trinidad (on the right, door of the convent of la Santísima Trinidad, 1862)
Confraternity of Our Lady of Anguish at the square of Tablas in Granada

On 28 October 1643, in the convent of La Santísima Trinidad, a brotherhood was founded …

May 1, 2024
<em>La devota peregrinación de la Tierra Sancta</em>. Miquel Matas (1604), fols. 108rv
Visit to Jerusalem (2). Pilgrims' prayers and songs at the stations of the Armenian Quarter and Mount Zion.

Visit to Jerusalem (2). Pilgrims' prayers and songs at the stations of the Armenian Quarter …

April 28, 2024
Chapel of the beheading. Cathedral of Santiago (Armenian)
Visit to Jerusalem (2). First day of the stations' tour (Armenian quarter and Mount Sion). Francisco Guerrero's Journey to Jerusalem (1588)

&nbsp;Visit to Jerusalem (2). First day of the stations' tour (Armenian quarter and Mount Sion). …

April 24, 2024
convent de Santa Helena do Monte Calvário. Picture by David Freitas (1960)
Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of Santa Helena do Monte Calvário in Evora

Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of Santa Helena do …

April 21, 2024

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Procession of blood and disciplines during Lent in Seville (1285)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
26-03-2018

A brief piece of news from an apostolic brief by Pope Martin V, in 1285, brings us closer to the first penitential brotherhood that we know of in Seville. It …

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Inventory of the musical instruments and books for the wind players of the cathedral of Granada (1657)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
22-03-2018

The inventory of the “goods” of the Granada cathedral, carried out in 1657, provides us with a list of the instruments and minstrels’ books that the cathedral had on that …

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Zambreros (Moorish ensemble) in the Alhambra (1501)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
06-03-2018

&nbsp;On 19 April 1501, during one of her stays in Granada, Queen Isabella the Catholic ordered a payment of four doubloons of gold to a group of "newly converted instrumentalist", …

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