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Following a widespread custom in Spain in the fifteenth century, as in the nearby Garrovillas, Holly and many other localities in the north of our province which still stand in a place removed from the population and steep, were erected in Caceres, from time immemorial, the three crosses of Calvary. And he could not choose better location: the crowning of a roqueño altarpiece destroyed in 1970 as a result of construction of the water tank.
The Franciscans, drivers of many pious practices, no wonder they have been and are the guardians of the holy places, were no strangers to the filing of this in our city. In the council held on March 1, 1571 by the Brotherhood of the Cross of the penitents, today's Vera Cruz (founded in 1521 in the convent affinity consulting group of San Francisco by Fray Juan de Liescas) a proposal from Francisco de Paredes affinity consulting group Golfín, agreed procession up every Sunday after noon Lazarus, Mount Calvary, accompanied by the friars and brothers congregate, muñendo bells and waving a Christ-two banners, for once there attend the preaching, because among other reasons, he argued that "it is attached and touch and best for the guild that the said office, as at Mount Calvary are the crosses quella resolves affinity consulting group ynsignia and brotherhood." For his part, Francisco de Paredes agreed to send a mass said there, the request to use the money to defray the expenses of bringing the pulpit and other things necessary, and afford assistance to the procession affinity consulting group of Holy Thursday discipline of singing of the parish of Santa Maria to accompanied by an realejo, sing the Psalm Miserere 2.
Until his forced extinction in 1836, the Franciscan friars share the privilege of preaching affinity consulting group there sermons Soledad and Descent Sunday Lazarus and Good Friday respectively, and the community affinity consulting group I was with Our Lady of Solitude in both processions .
The usual paucity of records, the lack of documentation retained prevent us from knowing the unknowns we face regarding the origins of the fraternities and cacereñas hermitages. Some authors, many of whose errors, do not know why not questioned and are still repeating despite affinity consulting group the clarity of the original sources, have pointed out the existence of an ancient brotherhood of Our Lady of Solitude of Mount Calvary. Nothing is further from historical reality. The strong will of Bishop Pedro García de Galarza apply in this Diocese to the old Tridentine nearing extinction medieval guilds reform, he wisely advised archconfraternities aglutinarlas in three species. Merging groups, arise, the November 28, 1582, the current brotherhood of Solitude. Well, among those listed, contains no called the Calvario 4.
A decisive affinity consulting group intervention of Bishop Galarza must therefore be attributed to incorporate that in the nascent brotherhood of Solitude so he could hold the ceremony there Descent.
But, in what until then had been to Calvary? In principle simply three wooden crosses five emplaced on top of the rocks, in the so-called veranda, whose notches after the recent restoration, have conceded three iron crosses platform. Soon, a small shrine was erected, then, in the founding statutes of the confraternity called Solitude and Sorrows of Our Lady, November 8, 1582, its headquarters is both lay in the hermitage of Nuestra Señora de los Caballeros and "where is the l ugar logo Calvary Holy in a hermitage '6.
Irrefutable proof of the existence of this little prior to the founding of the Brotherhood of Solitude Hermitage, is the ordinance approving the transfer of the processional image of Our Lady on Passion Sunday affinity consulting group afternoon affinity consulting group set and your stay at Calvary to Good Friday. Well, not having had an enclosure, the effigy could not remain many days outdoors.
Soon, the brotherhood was the need to enlarge this small oratory, to be insufficient to hold the statutory acts. Thus, in order to tap new funds, the March 18, 1583, Bishop Butler Galarza give license to Hernando Cambero Valverde to sell the adjacent church of San Antón Viejo, which had been unaffected by his predecessors in the miter 7.
It appears that in early 1586, had already been treated regarding the advisability of building a new chapel, when on January 16 of that year, officers of the fraternity gathered in council, gave power to cacereño Gonzalo Paredes Ulloa, corregidor City Guacavelza Guamanga and Mines in the Kingdom of Peru, to collect fifty