United States or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
As it is almost impossible to send so small a sum from one extremity of the Peninsula to the other, the priest of Arragon or of Navarre draws two pesetas from the cepillo, or alms-box of his parish, and the Andalusian priest puts the same sum into the cepillo of his parish, or he says two masses as an equivalent.
DOÑA MATILDE. No lo dudo, Eduardo; pero ... pero ello de todos modos es muy desagradable ... ¡y mi pobre papá que tenía tanta vanidad con mis manos!... ¿Qué buscas? DON EDUARDO. Di, Matilde, ¿has visto por ahí algún cepillo? DOÑA MATILDE. ¿Para qué? DON EDUARDO. Quisiera cepillarme un poco, antes de salir porque el polvillo del carbón.... DOÑA MATILDE. ¿Que vas a salir?
PURGATORY—Deliverance from by devotions of survivors—Those devotions described—Difference between dogma of purgatory and other dogmas—Modes of drawing out souls—Masses for the dead—Legacies to pay for them—External representations of images and pictures—Day of All Souls and its practices—The Andalusian Confraternity of Souls—Mandas piadosas—Debtor and creditor account between the church and purgatory—How balanced—Bull of Composition—Soul-days—Responsos—Cepillo, or alms-box—Financial operation—Origin of bills of exchange and clearing house—Wax Candles—Their efficacy—Cenotaphs—Summary of funds, and reflections on their misapplication.
Word Of The Day