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Convent of Santa Catalina of Ávila
Nuns music and polyphony in the Dominican convent of Santa Catalina in Ávila

The convent of Dominican nuns of Santa Catalina Martyr in the city of Ávila (1486-1836) …

Feb. 24, 2024
Our Lady of Antigua or La Grande Bell. Peeter van den Ghein III and Pauwels van Laere. Malinas (1600). Photography: Fernando Cova del Pino
Apprenticeship contract of a bell ringer at the Cathedral of Las Palmas (1619)

In this article we present the contract or deed, granted on February 4, 1619, in …

Feb. 20, 2024
Cathedral of Santa Catalina de Alejandría in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia)
Endowment of minstrels to accompany the Viaticum in the Cathedral of Cartagena de Indias

Fray Juan de Ladrada, during his bishopric in Cartagena de Indias (1596-1613), promoted the accompaniment …

Feb. 20, 2024
"Engraving of the Crucifixion". <em>Constituciones de la hermandad del Santísimo Cristo de la Fuente</em> (1736)
Confraternities at the hermitage of El Cristo de la Fuente in Granada

Confraternities at the hermitage of El Cristo de la Fuente in Granada

Feb. 17, 2024

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Organ in the convent of Santa Inés (1770)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Aug. 12, 2017

The inscription on the organ’s windchest of the convent of Santa Inés tells us that this instrument was built in 1770 by Salvador Pabón y Valdés at the request of …

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Endowment of an octave of the Immaculate Conception (1691)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Aug. 9, 2017

On 27 December 1691, Alonso Bernardo de los Ríos, archbishop of Granada, founded an octave dedicated to the Immaculate Conception in the convent of Jesús y María, which was celebrated …

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