El Ayuntamiento de Sangüesa (Navarra) y algunos cultos religiosos

Abstract

This article exposes the role played over the past few centuries by the town council of Sangüesa in the local religious calendar. In their zeal to protect the fields against drought, hailstorms and insect plagues, they programmed processions, with public prayers to their six patron saints, to the local hermitages and to other churches and sanctuaries in the surroundings: Leyre, Ujué and Javier. During the plague, the smallpox, cholera and the earthquakes, the town council ordered the invocation for the protection of certain saints, especially of Saint Sebastian and Saint Roque, patrons against the plague. The ritual of the reception of the Bulla of the Crusade was added and some festivities were programmed on the canonizations of some saints.