Category: Les bourgeois

1938-

Alboraya Council’s tinker books

The reforms of the Council of Trent led to parishes registering in five books–quinque libri–the baptisms, confirmations, communions, marriages, deaths and excommunications celebrated there. Quinquilleros, hojalateros and other itinerant pot-breakers and -menders were nominally Catholic but frowned on and frequently persecuted by the establishment, so it’s good to see the Ajuntament de Alboraya drawing them…

Pinochet, the last man up?

Apparently he’s made his way along a secret passage from Hell and is lying in wait in the San José mine. BoyNamedSue says the cage will jam in the shaft and Jack Straw will release him.

Spain’s worst monuments

A fine selection here. I updated WP to 3.0.1 from 2.9.something (solving the memory issues–I think the blurb said that the footprint was smaller, but that’s blatantly false), but I’m still catching up on work neglected in August so not much posting in prospect.