cite most devotion--Virgin of Zaragoza--The heart of
Mary--Month of Mary (May)--Kissing images--Anecdote of the
Duke of A--- and his courtezan--Habits and
promises--Penance

CHAPTER VI.

FEAST-DAYS--Processions and Novenas--Corpus Christi--How 122
performed in Seville, and the sacred dances of _los
seises_--How in Madrid--Procession of Holy Week--The
_Santo Entierro_--Clerical processions--Procession of the
Rosary--Rites of Roman Catholicism--Jubilee of forty
hours--_Romerias_ or pilgrimages

CHAPTER VII.

PURGATORY--Deliverance from by devotions of 142
survivors--Those devotions described--Difference between
dogma of purgatory and other dogmas--Modes of drawing out
souls--Masses for the dead--Legacies to pay for
them--External representations of images and pictures--Day
of All Souls and its practices--The Andalusian
Confraternity of Souls--_Mandas piadosas_--Debtor and
creditor account between the church and purgatory--How
balanced--Bull of
Composition--Soul-days--_Responses_--_Cepillo_, or
alms-box--Financial operation--Origin of bills of exchange
and clearing house--Wax Candles--Their
efficacy--Cenotaphs--Summary of funds, and reflections on
their misapplication

CHAPTER VIII.

AURICULAR CONFESSION--A sacrament inseparable from that of 152
communion--Obligatory on all once a year--Plan of
discovering defaulters--How punished--Evils of
confession--Power of the priest--Four evils pointed
out--Discoveries in the Inquisition in 1820--Facility of
obtaining absolution--Louis XIV.--Robbers and
assassins--The confessional--Practice, how
conducted--Expiatory acts--Refusal of absolution--A
husband disguised as his wife's confessor--The injunction
of secrecy on part of confessor--Advantages of the
knowledge he gains--Jesuits advocate the confessional--No
fees for confession, but gratuities are generally given

CHAPTER IX.

FASTS AND PENANCES--How observed--Indulgences--Spain is 170
privileged by the Bull of the Holy Crusade--Description of
that bull--Prices of copies--Commissary-General of
Crusades--His revenues--Their shameful application--Copy
of that bull--Other acts of penance--The _Disciplina_ or
whipping--_Cilicios_

CHAPTER X.

FALSE MIRACLES, RELICS, AND RELIGIOUS 187
IMPOSITIO