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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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Misereres sung before the Christ tied to the Column in the convent of Santa Teresa in Ávila

Alfonso de Vicente Delgado
Feb. 26, 2020

Apart from its liturgical function, Psalm 51 (50) Miserere mei Deus was sung in other devotional contexts in many churches and chapels, in Lent and Holy Week. This resulted in …

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Renovation of the organ in the collegiate church of Santa Fe (1736)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Feb. 18, 2020

In 1732, the chapter of the collegiate church of Santa Fe (Granada) agreed with the organ builder Fray Francisco Alejo Muñoz the renovation of the organ of his church, which …

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The Song of the Sibyl in the Tarragona Cathedral

Sergi González González
Feb. 18, 2020

Since 2014, the Song of the Sibyl is represented again in the cathedral of Tarragona. Eritrea, a sibyl daughter of a nymph, answers St. Augustine's questions about the redeemer's second …

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