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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture I tried newadvent.org and the Catholic Encyclopedia for "cofradia image" and was sent to a very informative article about Valencia. I didn't think it worth mentioning till Jim brought the book mentioned below to your attention. MG -- Jim Bugslag <[log in to unmask]> wrote: medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > Those are images that the cofradias (confraternities, kind of) carry during HOly Week in > procession in many Latin countries. The cofradias are usually "major domos" for the statues in > the churches; ie. they keep the altar clean, put out flowers, etc. through the year. Sometimes (at > least in one area of Mexico that I know of) the land belonging to the church is allotted to be > worked by the major domos.At harvest, they give a portion of the crops to the church. Very > medieval! Thank you, Ann. It is, indeed, "very medieval". You might be interested in Marlene Albert-Llorca, Les Vierges miraculeuses (Gallimard, 2002), which contains a great deal of information on the "cofradias" in the province of Valencia in Spain. Thanks also to John and Christopher for their responses to my query about St Symeon of Polirone, aka the Armenian. Cheers, Jim Bugslag ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - NetZero HiSpeed! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month -visit www.netzero.com to sign up today! ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html