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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
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