Libro de últimas memorias y misas.

English translation: Book of perpetual masses

08:58 Jun 29, 2017
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Spanish term or phrase: Libro de últimas memorias y misas.
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Archivo Parroquial de Agaete.
Libro de últimas memorias y misas.

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Lorna O'Donoghue
Local time: 07:13
English translation:Book of perpetual masses
Explanation:
This seems to be an old-fashioned term, with most references found in historical texts, but I think it is the equivalent to perpetual masses in English. I imagine records would be made in a book, which is this case is stored in the church archives.

Examples in Spanish:

$headTitle - Ayuntamiento de Burgos
archivo.aytoburgos.es/burgos/print/complete?q=*:*...
... de los Ríos, por el que deja 156 rls. de renta perpetua y anual al Hospital de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, con cargo de ciertas memorias y misas.

Las disposiciones funerarias del sínodo diocesano de Cádiz de 1591 ...
www.academia.edu/.../Las_disposiciones_funerarias_del_sínod...
Correspondía al colector llevar la cuenta y registro de las misas rezadas y cantadas, memorias y misas anuales de réquiem que se celebraban en su iglesia ...

Explanation in English:

"Bequests to endow perpetual masses wouldn't typically be invested in financial instruments. If you were doing the thing on a grand scale you would leave enough money to endow a monastery or nunnery - build the buildings, buy enough land to generate an income sufficient to maintain the monks or nuns - and direct that the monks/nuns were to pray daily for the benefactor. The prayers would continue for as along as the foundation lasted....If you weren't doing things on quite such a scale, you could leave money to an existing monastery/nunnery, on condition that they would pray for you. This was a condition they were mostly happy to accept, since their whole raison d'etre was praying for the world...."
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=789127

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Marie Wilson
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Book of perpetual masses


Explanation:
This seems to be an old-fashioned term, with most references found in historical texts, but I think it is the equivalent to perpetual masses in English. I imagine records would be made in a book, which is this case is stored in the church archives.

Examples in Spanish:

$headTitle - Ayuntamiento de Burgos
archivo.aytoburgos.es/burgos/print/complete?q=*:*...
... de los Ríos, por el que deja 156 rls. de renta perpetua y anual al Hospital de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, con cargo de ciertas memorias y misas.

Las disposiciones funerarias del sínodo diocesano de Cádiz de 1591 ...
www.academia.edu/.../Las_disposiciones_funerarias_del_sínod...
Correspondía al colector llevar la cuenta y registro de las misas rezadas y cantadas, memorias y misas anuales de réquiem que se celebraban en su iglesia ...

Explanation in English:

"Bequests to endow perpetual masses wouldn't typically be invested in financial instruments. If you were doing the thing on a grand scale you would leave enough money to endow a monastery or nunnery - build the buildings, buy enough land to generate an income sufficient to maintain the monks or nuns - and direct that the monks/nuns were to pray daily for the benefactor. The prayers would continue for as along as the foundation lasted....If you weren't doing things on quite such a scale, you could leave money to an existing monastery/nunnery, on condition that they would pray for you. This was a condition they were mostly happy to accept, since their whole raison d'etre was praying for the world...."
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=789127



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