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The colonial settlement of Santa Ana has been somewhat neglected by authorities and historians. This article looks at the founding there in 1672–73 of a confraternity dedicated to Saint Rose of Lima and how this illustrates several aspects of life at that time. When the bishop of Guatemala imposed full Tridentine authority on Santa Ana, many confraternities tried to avoid it. Quiet struggles over the roles of the local priest, supervision of the elections of office holders, the location of the new altar, ethnic and gender memberships, and the changing nature of the multiethnic settlement, all led to readjustments. These contentions continued throughout the colonial period and after.

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This article presents the 1573 statutes of the flagellant confraternity of San Francesco in Orvieto (founded 1323) and provides a transcription of these statutes. It describes the manuscript, analyses its attribution to this confraternity, and briefly summarises the confraternity’s own history.

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Between the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth, the Congregation of Artisans in Naples, spiritually led by the Jesuit Fr. Francesco De Geronimo, expressed its participation in the sufferings of Christ with a public procession that included elements of corporal penance. The ritual, meant to atone for one’s own sins and those of others, also served to generate community involvement. This article examines the penitential practices of the Congregation of Artisans by contextualizing them in the missionary work of the Society of Jesus and its mission in “the internal Indies.”