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Collegiate chuch of Saint Martin (currently cathedral)
Works by Francisco Guerrero at the collegiate church of Saint Martin in Bratislava

Works by Francisco Guerrero at the collegiate church of Saint Martin in Bratislava.

Jan. 9, 2023
Main altar of the convent of La Concepción
Confraternities at the convent of Nuestra Señora de la Concepción in Granada

Confraternities at the convent of Nuestra Señora de la Concepción in Granada

Jan. 9, 2023
Hight altar of the Convent of San Bernardo. Picture by Juan Ruiz JIménez
Confraternities at the convent of San Bernardo in Granada

Confraternities at the convent of San Bernardo in Granada.

Jan. 9, 2023
Convent of Los Capuchinos. Richard Ford (1831)
The regulation of the ringing of bells in the Capuchin Franciscan convents of the Province of Andalusia

The Ceremonial romano seráfico de los menores capuchinos de N. P. S. Francisco, printed in …

Jan. 7, 2023

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

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
March 26, 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
March 22, 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
March 6, 2018

 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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