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Author: Howard, Amy (ID633)
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Bishop Tejada began to improve religious life in SA
Date Created: 2023-10-12 20:56:17
Source: Situado and Sabana (ID 82)
Author: Bushnell, Amy (ID 32)
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The bishop began immediately to improve the religious life of the city. He reroofed the leaking parish church at the old hospital of La Soledad, reinforced its board walls, and built a stone sacristy. He sponsored processions of the Rosary on feastdays and fine evenings, summoned the "children of Spaniards" to church three times a week during Lent and catechized them personally, and opened a charity grammar school in his own home from which the boys marched, "chanting the doctrine," every afternoon to church to recite the Rosary. He prohibited gambling and lewd dancing in the taverns and heretical preaching by English traders on street corners AN370. He inspected the books of the cofradias and counted four abandoned hermitages: San Sebastian, San Patricio, Santa Barbara, and out on the bar, San Antonio. By April 1736, he had confirmed 630 espanoles and 143 negros, both free and slave AN369, out of a city population of 1509, counting "men, women, children, and some slaves" (Martinez Tejada 1736). (Bushnell SS)