Identifier: lifelightforwoma08woma (find matches)
Title: Life and light for woman
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Woman's Board of Missions
Subjects: Congregational churches
Publisher: (Boston : Woman's Boards of Missions
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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o the Virgin Dolores, the habit is ofblack cloth, and a black cord and tassel is tied around the waist.If to the Virgin del Carmen, it is of chocolate-colored cloth, andinstead of a cord and tassel, a leather strap is worn hanging froma belt, upon the end of which is the sacred heart of Jesus — apewter heart. The Roman Catholics deny that they worship the Vir-gin in the same way as they worship God. They affirm that to her isgiven the worship of Dulia, in distinction from the worship of Latria,which is reserved for God alone. This may be the teaching of theChurch, but, practically, God is utterly forgotten by the people, asthey enter a church and kneel before the image of some patronsaint or virgin. In some places music, and, as in Seville, once a year, dancing,forms a part of the service. It seems to be a relic of Pagan rites;but in the case of the Virgin of Monserrat, it is claimed that themusic is typical of the rude worship of the shepherds at Bethlehem. MARIOLATRY IN SPAIN. 195
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VIKGTN OF MONSERRAT. However that may be, it is most unmelodious. As represented inthe picture, the performers are grouped about the image, and theservice begins— at first with singing; then suddenly all break intodiscordant yells and shrieks, accompanied by a blowing of whis-tles and horns, beating of tin clappers and fiddles, trumpets andcymbals. Monserrat, or the serrated mountain on which is themonastery in which this virgin is enshrined, was the home of Igna-iiius Loyola for a year after his conversion, and he was greatly 196 LIFE AND LIGHT. comforted in his sorrows by the belief that the virgin smiled on himcontinually. Besides this virgin, some of the principal ones of Spainare the Virgin of the Pillar, in Seville, Virgin of Griefs (Augus-tias), in Granada,Virginof the Church of Atocha, in Madrid, andmany others too numerous to mention. These are all black dolls,and invariably hold in their arms a small image representingChrist. They have most costly wardrobes, to which new d

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