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Title: Roman Catholicism in Spain

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: June 3, 2009 [eBook #29025]

Language: English

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Transcribed from the 1855 Johnstone and Hunter edition by David Price,
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ROMAN CATHOLICISM
IN SPAIN.

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BY
AN OLD RESIDENT.

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EDINBURGH:
JOHNSTONE & HUNTER.
LONDON: R. GROOMBRIDGE & SONS.

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M.DCCC.LV.

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EDINBURGH:
PRINTED BY JOHNSTONE AND HUNTER,
HIGH STREET.

CONTENTS.

Page

INTRODUCTION--Variableness of outward practice of 7
Christianity--The like as to that of Mahometanism--Roman
Catholicism most subject to that modification--Excesses of
Roman Catholicism in Spain accounted for by Spanish
history--The Goths and Moors of Africa--Their conversion
to Christianity--The aborigines of America--Traditional
coincidences with scriptural truth--National character of
the religion of Spaniards--Religion of the
affections--Santa Teresa--Amatory propensities in
connection with religion--Knight-errantry--Motto of
Spanish nobility--The four primitive
orders--Loyola--Religion the pretext for wars of
Spain--Three distinct features of the national character
of Spaniards, illustrated by Isabella the Catholic,
Charles V., and Philip II.

CHAPTER I.

THE SPANISH CLERGY--Their primitive state--Their 31
subsequent organization--_Barraganas_--Immoral practices
of the clergy--Their wealth, and it