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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
<em>View taken from above the bullring</em> (detail). Alfred Guesdon (c. 1855)
Festival organised by the Real Maestranza of Granada on the occasion of the reception of Agustín de Valdivia as an elder brother (1767)

Antonio Soriano, chapel master of the Collegiate Church of El Salvador, composed the march La …

April 17, 2024
Title page. <em>El viage de Hierusalem</em> (1594) [E-Mrae, 14-XI-37]
First Barcelona edition of El viage de Hierusalem by Francisco Guerrero (1594)

First Barcelona edition of El viage de Hierusalem by Francisco Guerrero (1594).

April 12, 2024
Church of San Lorenzo
Will of the ministril Francisco González Dávila (1654)

The will of the ministril and dulcian player Francisco González Dávila provides us with his …

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Procession of the reception of the Crusade Bull in Seville (1632)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
June 8, 2019

The procession to receive the Bull of Crusade was the first of the general processions held in Seville each year. It was announced the day before with trumpets, drums and …

bula de Cruzada general procession hymn AAT sermon AAT the pealing of bells confraternities project Alonso Sánchez Gordillo (abbot of the Universidad de Beneficiados, historian) city council AAT cathedral chapter minstrels of the city council trumpeter AAT drummers AAT town crier confraternities beneficiary priest confraternity of the Saint Ecce homo and Our Lady of the Road confraternity of Our Lady of Good Trip and Holy Christ of Help brotherhood of the Christ of Humility and the Last Supper confraternity of the Holy Burial confraternity of the Sacred Expiration of Our Lord Jesus Christ of Our Lady of the Rosary and of the Prayer of Jesus in the Garden confraternity of Our Lady the Star confraternity of Our Lady of the "O" confraternity of Our Lady of Hope confraternity of Our Lady of La Hiniesta confraternity of the Name of Jesus at the convent of San Pablo confraternity of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem confraternity of the Sacred Passion of Jesus Christ confraternity of Our Lady of the Solitude confraternity of Our Lady of Antigua confraternity of the Five Holy Wounds confraternity of the Our Lady of the Incarnation confraternity of the Veronica and the Coronation of Thorns confraternity of the Conception of the Virgin Mary confraternity of Our Lady of Anguish confraternity of the Christ of Saint Augustine confraternity of the True Cross convent of San Francisco Casa Grande (Franciscans) cathedral of Santa María de la Sede cathedral of Sevilla. Door of San Miguel or of Nacimiento cathedral of Sevilla. Main altar Genova street Gradas street
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Toll of the church clock bell of the convent of San Agustín in Seville (1749)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
June 4, 2019

On 27 June 1747, an English clock was installed in a tower built for this purpose in the convent of San Agustín, which would serve the San Roque district, outside …

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Purchase of a trumpet for the cathedral of Granada (1762)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
May 29, 2019

News of the purchase of a trumpet for the cathedral of Granada in 1762. It was purchased in Seville and its cost, including transport, was 5,100 maravedís. The person in …

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Endowment of a requiem mass by the members of the music chapel of Granada Cathedral (1711)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
May 26, 2019

On 7 July 1711, the members of the cathedral's music chapel asked the chapter to endow a requiem mass for their deceased colleagues on the octave of the Feast of …

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New organ for the convent of San Antón in Granada (1707)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
May 21, 2019

In 1707, the chapter of Granada Cathedral granted eight arrobas (92 kg.) of lead to the convent of San Antón de Granada to help in the construction of a new …

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