La devoción a las Cinco Llagas y a la Sangre de Cristo en las cofradías riojanas de la Vera Cruz

LABARGA GARCÍA, Fermín

Publication year:

1999

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

84-8419-985-1

ISSN:

1137-439X

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Summary

From the Middle Ages, and beginning with the influence of the mystics and spiritual authors, the devotion for the five wounds and for the Blood of Christ developed among the Christian people. Such devotions influenced equally the origin and the spirituality of the confraternities of the Vera Cruz, within which penitential processions with penitants were held, penitants who, through their exercise of penitence, identified themselves with Christ in his Passion, especially by their flagellation.