Scandal in the Parish: Priests and Parishioners Behaving Badly in Eighteenth-Century France by Karen E. Carter

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 492-494
Author(s):  
Gemma Betros
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Parish Priests

scholarly journals Modeling Black Piety and Community Membership in the Virgin of Altagracia Medallions

Arts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Jennifer Baez
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Santo Domingo ◽  
Community Membership ◽  
Community Of Faith ◽  
The Third ◽  
Black Bodies ◽  
Parish Priests

In the third quarter of the eighteenth century, Santo Domingo archbishop Isidoro Rodríguez Lorenzo (s. 1767–1788) issued a decree officializing the day of the cult for the Virgin of Altagracia as January 21 and made it a feast of three crosses for the villa of Salvaleón de Higüey and its jurisdiction, meaning all races (free and enslaved) were allowed to join the celebrations in church. Unrelated to the issuance of this decree and approximately during this time (c. 1760–1778), a series of painted panels depicting miracles performed by the Virgin of Altagracia was produced for her sanctuary of San Dionisio in Higüey, in all likelihood commissioned by a close succession of parish priests to the maestro painter Diego José Hilaris Holt. Painted in the coarse style of popular votive panels, they gave the cult a unifying core foundation of miracles. This essay discusses the significance of the black bodies pictured in four of the panels within the project’s implicit effort to institutionalize the regional cult and vis-à-vis the archbishop’s encouragement of non-segregated celebrations for her feast day. As January 21 was associated with a renowned Spanish creole battle against the French, this essay locates these black bodies within the cult’s newfound patriotic charisma. I examine the process by which people of color were incorporated into this community of faith as part of a two-step ritual that involved seeing images while performing difference. Through contrapuntal analysis of the archbishop’s decree, I argue the images helped model black piety and community membership within a hierarchical socioracial order.

Parish Priest and Community in 18th-century Malta: Patterns of Conflict

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frans Ciappara
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Parish Priest ◽  
The People ◽  
Religious Services ◽  
Parish Priests

AbstractThis essay explores the relations between parish priests and their parishioners in eighteenth-century Malta. It argues that pastors did not succeed in governing the community and controlling local religious life. Generally, they were outsiders. This was a great liability since rivalry between villages was intense and the inhabitants were reluctant to admit new people, to whom they were often hostile. But the main reason for the rivalry between the faithful and the pastor was that the people themselves took an active role in the parish. They regarded the office of parish priest as a subservient one for which service they paid the priest handsomely, and provided him with a livelihood. Pastors were to concern themselves only with vital religious services and leave the administration of the parish to the parishioners. The essay also emphasizes that in the struggle with their parish priest the people found the support from the assistant clergy.

Preachers or Teachers? Parish Priests and their Sermons in the Late Enlightenment Habsburg Empire

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 205-224
Author(s):  
Alena A. Fidlerová
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Pastoral Theology ◽  
Habsburg Empire ◽  
Keen Interest ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
University Curricula ◽  
Joseph Ii ◽  
Parish Priests ◽  
Theology Faculty

This article explores the role parish priests were expected to play in educating the populace of the Habsburg empire at the end of the eighteenth century, and especially how this was manifested in the form and content of their sermons. Emperor Joseph II took a keen interest in the education of future priests and expected them to be good shepherds (pastores boni) and educators to their parishioners. To this end, together with his mother, he carried out several reforms in their education (such as changing theology faculty curricula, introducing pastoral theology as a new subject and establishing general seminaries) and even issued a special decree on 4 February 1783, providing detailed instructions for preachers. The article outlines how future priests were taught to educate their parishioners through their sermons, concentrating on how they followed these instructions in their homiletic practice, which changed the form and content of sermons radically. It is based on archival material concerning the education of future priests (such as court decrees, governmental orders and university curricula), pastoral theology textbooks used at the Prague faculty of theology, and selected printed sermons.

The Financial Condition of Parish Priests in late Eighteenth-Century Malta

2002 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANS CIAPPARA
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Financial Situation ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Financial Condition ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Personal Wealth ◽  
Parish Priests

Parish priests in late eighteenth-century Malta often grumbled about their poverty, but their excuses were generally self-serving and related to the financial demands of their bishop; like incumbents in mainland Europe, they were not in a bad financial situation. Their relative affluence was a result of revenues such as tithes, mass legacies and surplice fees. In small communities this income may have been tiny, but parish priests were not entirely dependent on parochial revenues, since they were generally drawn from middle-rank families and might possess personal wealth in addition.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document