Beati mortui qui in Domino moriuntur. Attitudes towards death and burial sites of secular Franciscan brothers in the city of Coimbra (1707‑1785)

Authors

  • Ana Margarida Dias da Silva Venerável Ordem Terceira da Penitência de S. Francisco Universidade de Coimbra – CHSC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/1645-2259_16_10

Keywords:

secular Franciscan Order, suffrages, burials, alms petitions, death

Abstract

The Venerable Third Order of Penance of St. Francis of Coimbra guarantees spiritual and material benefits to its members, including the brothers escort to the grave and the suffrages for the deceased brothers’ souls. The statutes and fraternity memories allow us to understand the secular Franciscan brothers’ behaviour towards death and what its  members’ obligations and rights were. In the 1653 death records of the Third Order of Coimbra, between 1707 and 1785 we gather information on the secular Franciscan brothers’ burial places, which is the goal of this study. The collegiate churches of Santiago and S. Bartolomeu, the churches of Santa Justa, S. Pedro and S. João de Almedina, the monastery of Santa Cruz, and the convents of S. Domingos and S. Francisco da Ponte congregate the largest number of secular Franciscan brothers’ burials in the eighteenth century.

https://doi.org/10.14195/1645-2259_16_10

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Published

2016-12-30

Issue

Vol. 16 (2016)

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Artigos

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