Portal de Las Torres de Cotillas
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Since the Christian Reconquest of our land in Murcia flourished a universe of lay associations under denominations of Brotherhoods, Brotherhoods, Congregations, Third Orders, and so on.
These organizations were developed historically in the centuries of the Modern Age, subsisted in the nineteenth century and are still strong today in the century.
The existence of religious associationism in our Villa Torreña is already documented in the dawn of the seventeenth century-specifically in the year 1612-when the then parish priest of Cotillas, Pedro Casquer, informed the Dominican friar Juan de Pereda that the Moors of the municipality had created three brotherhoods: Blessed Animas, Blessed Sacrament and Holy Rosary.
Throughout the three centuries that conventionally we denominate Modern Age these entities did not have a uniform and constant development in the locality, but they were changing realities, sometimes dependent on the economic resources of their members, others of the zeal and the faith of the and even of other circumstances that have arisen, always under the eyes of the corresponding ecclesiastical authority, and even of civil authority.
We speak for what Cotillas is concerned with invocations and devotions subject to the theological vagaries and the influence of the great religious orders.
Thus, the confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, after the Council of Trent, aimed at strengthening the Eucharist against the reformist doctrines;
and the popular devotion to the Virgin of the Rosary was closely linked to the diffusion of the Dominicans, important in the geography of Murcia.
The three mentioned Torrena Brotherhoods, as reflected in the inventory of goods that come from testamentary donations of people who are attached to the institution and / or individuals alien to it by received spiritual graces and indulgences that are granted to the soul of the deceased and Other earthly benefits, published the Official Gazette of the Province of Murcia in its edition of April 27, 1853 came to own a total of 89 irrigation tahúllas (Animas, 46, Rosario, 27, and Blessed Sacrament, 16), distributed in 25 farms and with a patrimonial value of almost 80,000 reales de vellón, it reported them to the year a rent of another 2,000 for leases and benefits of harvests, destined to cover charitable attentions, social, cults in dates indicated and in acts derived from the death of the brothers (whether prayers, burials and similar) or investments in works and ditches.
The law of confiscation that in 1855 launched the former Minister of Finance Pascual Madoz in order to declare "the sale of all rustic and urban properties, censuses and forums belonging to the State, the clergy, orders military of Santiago, Alcántara, Calatrava, Montesa and San Juan de Jerusalén, the pious works and sanctuaries, the own and common of the towns, to the charity, to the public instruction, and any others belonging to dead hands and their exit to public auction ", would end this patrimony of land of the brotherhoods Torrena.
But that is already part of another story.
Juan José Ruiz Moñino
REFERENCED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
MONTES BERNÁRDEZ, R .: The Brotherhood of San Juan Evangelista (Las Torres de Cotillas-Murcia), collection "On the banks of the Guatazales" number 7, ed.
City Hall of Las Torres de Cotillas, 2008.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN OF THE PROVINCE OF MURCIA, edition of April 27, 1853.
Wikipedia.
Source: JJRM
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