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Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll after the attack and fire during the bullangues [ca; es] of 1835.. The anti-clerical riots of 1835 were revolts against the religious orders in Spain, fundamentally for their support of the Carlists in the civil war that began after the death of King Ferdinand VII at the end of 1833, and which took place during the summer of 1835 in Aragon and, above all, in ...
The dissolution of the monasteries enforced by the government of Mendizábal in 1835 put an end to the abbey, and the abandoned buildings fell into decay. In 1954 the Cistercian ( Trappist ) monks of Viaceli Abbey in Cóbreces , west of Santander , began reconstruction, having already refounded and restored Huerta Abbey in 1929, and were able ...
Ultimately, the desamortización led to the vacating of most of the ancient monasteries in Spain, which had been occupied by the various convent orders for centuries. Some of the expropriations were reversed in subsequent decades, as happened at Santo Domingo de Silos , but these re-establishments were relatively few.
Monasteries in this area were historically founded mainly by kings, bishops and nobles.There were a number of reasons individuals might found a monastery, largely self-serving ones: to reserve a burial there, which came with perpetual prayers by the monks on behalf of the founder's soul, sheltering a princess, widow, unmarried or bastard, in the case of kings.
The following is a list of events in which convents in Spain were burned. Burning of convents during the French invasion as planned or spontaneous actions of the French army during the Peninsular War; Burning of convents in Spain (1835), during the First Carlist War and subsequent ecclesiastical confiscations of Mendizábal.
Locations of the burnings. Between May 10 and May 13, 1931, over one hundred convents and other religious buildings were deliberately burned down by anarchists and other Far Left anticlericalists in Spain during allegedly spontaneous riots that started in Madrid and spread throughout the country.
Another fire in 1174 damaged the choir, leading to the rebuilding of the east end of the cathedral. An earthquake damaged the cathedral in 1382. An 1872 fire destroyed the roof of the Trinity Chapel. [80] Fires sustained during World War II bombings were quickly extinguished. [81] Chichester Cathedral – An 1187 fire destroyed the cathedral ...
Towards the end of the decade of the martyrs, Eulogius's martyrology begins to record the closing of Christian monasteries and convents, which to Muslim eyes had proved to be a hotbed of disruptive fanaticism rather than a legitimate response against a slow but systematic elimination of Christianity.