About this Item
3 parts in 1 volume. 4°, contemporary dark brown straight-grain morocco, gilt ruled and roll-tooled border on covers, flat spine with gilt bands and short title (minor wear). Elaborately designed title page with multiple fonts and flourishes. First printed title page browned at edges; light dampstain at lower edge. Overall in good to very good condition. (1 blank, 1 l.), 236 pp., (3 ll. indice, 1 blank l.), 93 pp., (1 blank, 1 l. indice, 1 blank ll.), 31 pp. *** First edition in this form (?) of a compendium produced by the Church during the struggle between Conservatives and Liberals in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico. The Catholic Church hierarchy was struggling to defend its rights against attempts by the Liberals to limit its powers. It is unclear whether this volume has the same contents as Palau 184651 (Defensa eclesiástica en el obispado de Michoacan desde fines de 1855 hasta principios de 1858 o sea colección de representaciones y protestas, comunicaciones oficiales, circulares y decretos diocesanos); but that volume certainly does not include Costa's Manual de misioneros.The Manual de misioneros is a translation of a guidebook written when priests were working to reestablish Catholicism in France after the French Revolution, ca. 1801. It includes much advice on matters that would have been of concern to Mexican prelates, e.g., how to cope in a diocese where the higher levels of the Church hierarchy are not present, how to act when the residents detest the Catholic priests, how do deal with those who refuse to come back to the fold, how to deal with priests who have sworn an oath to a secular government, who has the right to absolve those accused of heresy, how to deal with those who have received property confiscated from the Church, how to care for reliquaries and other sacred objects, and what the first steps should be in instructing people about Catholicism. The printed title for this part is Manual de misioneros, o ensayo sobre la conducta que pueden proponerse observar los sacerdotes llamados al restablecimiento de la religion en Francia. Obra postuma de . traducido al castellano por D.P.V.C. Presbitero. Segunda edicion mejicana. Jean-Noël Nativité's Manuel des missionnaires, ou, Essai sur la conduite que peuvent se proposer de tenir les prêtres appelés à travailler au rétablissement de la religion catholique en France, originally published in Rome, 1801, was published in Spanish translation (apparently always by the same P.V.C.) at Palma, 1813 (OCLC 807537589, 3 copies); Barcelona, 1823 (804352839, 1 copy); Mexico, 1829 (255596519, 1 copy); and Madrid, 1839 (25121042, 3 copies).The title page for the second part (with elaborate typography and ornaments, like the volume's main title page) is Protestas y pastorales del Y.S. Obispo de Michoacan. It includes a response by Bishop Clemente de Jesus Munguia and his Cabildo to the expropriation of ecclesiastical property in June 1856, with a long section on the origin of the Church's property ownership and how it is administered. Eleven other documents, the latest issued in January 1859, make further protests to the government, refusing to confirm the Constitution of 1857, refusing Catholic burials for those who have sworn to uphold it, and so on.The title page for the third part is: Suplemento. Manifestacion que hacen al venerable clero y fieles de sus respectivas diócesis y á todo el mundo católico, los Illmos. Sres. Arzobispo de México y Obispos de Michoacan, Linares, Guadalajara y el Potosí, y el Sr. Dr. D. Francisco Serrano, como representante de la mitra de Puebla, en defensa del clero y de la doctrina catolica con ocasion del manifiesto y los decretos expedidos por el Sr. Lic. D. Benito Juarez en la Ciudad de Veracruz en los dias 7, 12, 13 y 23 de Julio de 1859. In this letter dated 30 August 1859, Archbishop of Mexico D. Lazaro de la Garza y Ballesteros, along with Bishop of Michoacán Clemente de Jesus Munguia and several other prominent clergy vehemently oppose t. Seller Inventory # 22323
Contact seller
Report this item
