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Laura,
I am looking at the Repertorium poenitentiariae germanicum to see if the
Apostolic Penitentiary granted licenses to be buried inside a church.
No luck so far.
Tom Izbicki
Laura Jacobus wrote:
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> Subject: Re: [SPAM]Re: [M-R] Fw: [M-R] burials in church (and in
> chapels of ease)
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>> Thanks Jim. Goodall's book has been on my 'to do' list since it came
>> out, so this was a helpful nudge! In answer to your question, the
>> Scrovegni chapel (which is actually a church dedicated to St. Mary of
>> Charity) was a 'prepositura', which I understand to be a private
>> church outside the usual parish/diocesan system (though it still
>> received an annual visitation by the bishop). Its 'preposito'
>> (translatable as prevost?) headed a community of three or four
>> Augustinian canons. Would that count as a college of canons? The
>> founder is known to have made three endowments, the earliest of which
>> was ten years after the church's foundation, and the surviving docs
>> speak of maintaining 'appropriate divine offices and divine cult '
>> but don't say anything specific about memorial prayers. I think they
>> were probably chantry endowments anyway, since he'd certainly added
>> the apse and built himself a tomb in it by the time of the last
>> endowment. The gap between foundation and endowment puzzles me - and
>> that's why I'm still not sure whether he built the church with the
>> intention of being buried there. To muddy the waters further, the
>> family seems to have already had funerary chapels elsewhere in major
>> Paduan churches.
>>
>> all best
>>
>> Laura
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "jbugslag" <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Sent: 13 April 2009 21:31
>> Subject: [SPAM]Re: [M-R] Fw: [M-R] burials in church (and in chapels
>> of ease)
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>>>> > Getting back the the Scrovegnis, there is a theory that the church
>>>> > was intended as the founder's 'mausoleum' but I find this hard to
>>>> > prove one way or another as he was eventually buried in an apsidal
>>>> > chapel that was added to the original church.
>>>
>>> Laura,
>>> Picking up on Tom's comment about chantries, this arrangement
>>> emulates that in many
>>> English parish churches, where the sanctuary is flanked on one side
>>> by a rather large chapel
>>> that serves as a chantry, often containing burials (lots of examples
>>> in Colvin, Architecture and
>>> the Afterlife). Ewelme, in Oxfordshire is a good example. The
>>> lords of the manor had the
>>> parish church rebuilt with just such a chantry, along with an
>>> accompanying almshouse and
>>> grammar school, and Alice de la Pole has a splendid tomb just
>>> between the chantry and the
>>> sanctuary, presumably to take advantage of Masses at either altar.
>>> Although this is a 15th-
>>> century example, there is a good recent study of it by John Goodall,
>>> God's House at Ewelme
>>> (Ashgate, 2001).
>>> Did the Scrovegni Chapel, by the way, have merely a chaplain or a
>>> college of canons?
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jim
>>>
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