Typology of the dedications of the confraternities of the province of Valladolid in 1773

The Counter-Reformation period, inaugurated by the Council of Trent (1545-1563) in response to the Protestant Reformation, underpinned the public manifestation of Catholicism through popular religiosity: the confraternities. These associations of lay people, although initially of a guild nature, became sacramental, and by the end of the modern period they were the most common. The resource deals with the devotions of the confraternities in the province of Valladolid, by judicial districts, which existed in 1773, the year in which the Enlightenment government was immersed in the development of the Expediente General de Cofradías in order to count them and, if necessary, suppress them. In general terms, devotions to Saints were the most common in the province (26.97%), with the districts of Rueda del Almirante, Simancas and Mayorga standing out as those with the highest rates. The dedications to Christ constituted 23.01% of the total, being more established in quantitative terms in Puebla de Sanabria, Benavente and Palenzuela. The Marian confraternities, promoted by the Catholic Church, accounted for 21.85%, with a more homogeneous distribution throughout the province. Finally, devotions to the Blessed Sacrament (10.61%), the Ánimas (9.92%), Third Orders (0.84%), Mixed (4.27%) and Others (2.53%) completed the popular devotions. The different degree of implantation of the devotional typology by the population centres of Valladolid was conditioned by local affinities to Saints, Patrons or Miracles that took place in the municipalities.

Collection: Statistics

Project: 10. Churches and religions in Europe., 11. Science and culture as representation in Europe.

Chronology: XVIII

Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University

Link: https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/Studia_Historica/article/view/8238/8239

Resource type: Statistics

Format: Table

Source: Manzano Ledesma, F. (2007). "La religiosidad popular de los vallisoletanos en el siglo XVIII: el informe sobre las cofradías de la provincia de Valladolid de 1773", en Studia Historica, vol. 29, p. 395.

Language: Spanish

Date: 2007

Owner: Pablo Ballesta Fernández (Modernalia)

Abstract: Resource that shows the dedications of the confraternities of the district of Valladolid in 1773, according to their devotional diversity of Saints, Saints, Marian, Christological, Sacramental, of Souls or Mixed that existed in each district of Valladolid

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