Real e Venerável Irmandade do Santíssimo Sacramento de Mafra

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coat of arms
Brotherhood coat of arms
Basic data
Legal status brotherhood
Seat of the brotherhood Mafra , Portugal
Patron saint Most Holy Sacrament

The Royal and Venerable Brotherhood of the Blessed Sacrament of Mafra ( Portuguese : Real e Venerável Irmandade do Santíssimo Sacramento de Mafra ) is a public association of believers of the Catholic Church. Its headquarters are in the Palácio Nacional de Mafra , the largest palace and monastery complex in Portugal, which was officially declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019 . Their tasks include, in particular, the supervision of the Corpus Christi procession and the implementation of the four processions during Lent in the city of Mafra .

The fraternity owns an important cultural heritage. This includes the shirt that the French King Louis XV. at his coronation in the cathedral of Reims was wearing, and the Portuguese King John V was presented.

history

Statute of 1725

The brotherhood was first mentioned on March 14, 1597, when they were awarded 1,100 Réis in a will . The statute of July 5, 1725, which was ratified on July 19 of the same year by Cardinal Tomás de Almeida (1670–1754), has been preserved.

In 1866 the fraternity acquired the property of the then dissolved Third Order of the Franciscans of Mafra, on condition that the procession previously carried out by the Franciscans be held every year.

The Brotherhood enjoyed until the proclamation of the Republic on October 5, 1910 the protection of the kings of Portugal , Manuel II. , Last king of Portugal was settled honorary director of the Brotherhood.

Processions in Lent

Good Friday procession of the Entombment of Christ, Mafra

The processions in Mafra have preserved many Baroque features . They are among the most important and original cultural events in Portugal.

In his diary, the English traveler William Beckford describes a procession in the Hall De Profundis in the monastery convent at the end of the 18th century .

The Lent processions in the city of Mafra are:

  • Passion procession (Portuguese: Procissão do Senhor Jesus dos Passos ) - Second Sunday of Lent ;
  • Penitential Procession of the Third Order of the Franciscans (Portuguese: Procissão de Penitência da Ordem Terceira de São Francisco ) - Fourth Sunday of Lent ;
  • Procession of the Seven Sorrows of Mary (Portuguese: Procissão das Sete Dores de Nossa Senhora ) - Palm Sunday ;
  • Procession of the Entombment of Christ (Portuguese: Procissão do Enterro do Senhor ) - Good Friday .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UNESCO - Royal Building of Mafra - Palace, Basilica, Convent, Cerco Garden and Hunting Park (Tapada)
  2. ↑ Colecçam dos Documentos Estatutos e Memorias da Academia Real da Historia ... Academia Real da História Portuguesa, Manoel Telles da Silva Alegrete (Marqués de), Nuno da Silva Teles, na Officina de Pascoal da Sylva, 1727
  3. ^ Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill, author of Vathek p. 328

literature

  • William Beckford : Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill, author of Vathek, in two volumes. Charles J. Skeet, London, 1859. Online version (University of Toronto).
  • A. Ayres Carvalho - Obra Mafrense . Mafra: Câmara Municipal de Mafra, 1992. - ISBN 972-9181-17-9 .
  • Carlos Galrão - “A pia baptismal da igreja de Santo André” . O Concelho de Mafra, nº 372. Mafra: Tipografia Liberty.
  • Mafra Sacra: memória & património, 1717-2017 / coord. Tiago Henriques. - 1ª ed. - Sintra: Zéfiro; Mafra: Real e Venerável Irmandade do Santíssimo Sacramento da Paróquia de Santo André de Mafra, 2017. - 461, [3] p. : il. ; 30 cm. - (Mafra Sacra). - ISBN 978-989-677-153-9 .
  • Fernando António Baptista Pereira - Do Gótico ao Maneirismo: A Arte na Região de Mafra na Epoca dos Descobrimentos . Mafra: Câmara Municipal de Mafra, 2000.
  • António Filipe Pimentel - Aquitectura e Poder - O Real Edifício de Mafra . Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 2002. - ISBN 972-24-1172-1 .
  • Free João de S. José do Prado - MONUMENTO SACRO DA FABRICA, E SOLEMNISSIMA SAGRAÇÃO DA SANTA Basilica DO REAL CONVENT, QUE JUNTO À VILLA DE MAFRA DEDICOU A N. SENHORA, E SANTO ANTÓNIO A MAGESTADE AUGUSTA DO MAXIMO REY D. JOÃO V . Lisboa: na Officina de Miguel Rodrigues, impressor do Eminent. Senhor Card. Patriarca, 1751.
  • Luiz Saldanha Lopes, [et al.] - A camisa da sagração de Luís XV ea Irmandade do Santíssimo Sacramento de Mafra . 1.ª ed. Mafra: Irmandade do Santíssimo Sacramento de Mafra, 2016. - ISBN 978-989-20-6280-8 .
  • Sandra Costa Saldanha - Um crucifixo de Anton Maria Maragliano em Mafra: oferta do genovês Domenico Massa à Ordem Terceira da Penitência , Invenire: Revista de Bens Culturais da Igreja, nº 7, 2013. Online version .
  • Teresa Leonor M. Vale - “Os Garvo - Uma família de artistas italianos em Lisboa eo seu papel no contexto da arte portuguesa de seiscentos e setecentos” . In Le nove son tanto e tante buone, che dir non se ne pò Lisboa dos Italianos: História e Arte (sécs. XIV-XVIII) , Nunziatella Alessandrini et al. (eds.,). Lisboa: Cátedra de Estudos Sefarditas "Alberto Benveniste", 2013b. - ISBN 978-989-96236-3-7 .
  • Margarida Garcez Ventura - A Colegiada de Santo André de Mafra (Séculos XV-XVIII) . Mafra: Câmara Municipal de Mafra, 2002. - ISBN 972-8204-30-2 .

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Coordinates: 38 ° 56 ′ 12 ″  N , 9 ° 19 ′ 35 ″  W.