La Vera Cruz: Wills, Confraternities, Catholic Reconquest and Reform in Sixteenth-Century Gibraltar

In his Historia de Gibraltar, the Gibraltar-born jurado Alonso Hernández del Portillo described how “the confraternity of the Santa Vera Cruz has a fine and pleasant church on the Main Street”. Set in the heart of town, it was an impressive building, which caused the missionary Pedro Cubero Sebastiá...

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Published in:Religions (Basel, Switzerland ) Vol. 13; no. 8; p. 710
Main Author: Asquez, Ryan
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.08.2022
Subjects:
16th century
Christianity
Church renewal
Confraternities
Counter-Reformation
Gibraltar
History
Mexican-American War
Receipts
Reconquista
Religion
Religious aspects
Religious reform
Spirituality
suffering Christ
Vera Cruz confraternities
wills
Gibraltar
Mexico
United Kingdom
California
Spain
ISSN:2077-1444, 2077-1444
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Summary:In his Historia de Gibraltar, the Gibraltar-born jurado Alonso Hernández del Portillo described how “the confraternity of the Santa Vera Cruz has a fine and pleasant church on the Main Street”. Set in the heart of town, it was an impressive building, which caused the missionary Pedro Cubero Sebastián to describe it as “most excellent” in the late seventeenth-century. Within the church existed the confraternity’s pride and joy: el Cristo de la Vera Cruz, a miraculous image of the crucified Christ and a key feature of local devotion. Using unpublished testamentary evidence, this article explores the early years of this local manifestation of Christological devotion, as well as the devotional context out of which it grew. The timeline established by these wills not only allows us to place this church and confraternity, and therefore Gibraltar, within the context of the Catholic Reformation, but to locate these religious developments as part of a prolonged process of Christianisation which began with the city’s reconquest in 1462.
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ISSN:2077-1444
2077-1444
DOI:10.3390/rel13080710