Stones and Bones: Catholic Responses to the 1812 Collapse of the Mission Church of Capistrano
This essay delves into the 1812 collapse of the Great Stone Church at California's Mission of San Juan Capistrano and its aftermath to consider how early modern Catholics in the greater Iberian world approached the material remains of ruined churches that contained human victims. Questions expl...
| Published in: | Material religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2017
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| In: |
Material religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mission San Juan Capistrano
/ Church building
/ Structural failures
/ Unglücksfall
/ Reactionary politics
/ Geschichte 1812
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| RelBib Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KBQ North America KDB Roman Catholic Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Ruins
B Acjachemen Indians B Earthquake B Franciscan B California B Relics |
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| Summary: | This essay delves into the 1812 collapse of the Great Stone Church at California's Mission of San Juan Capistrano and its aftermath to consider how early modern Catholics in the greater Iberian world approached the material remains of ruined churches that contained human victims. Questions explored include how Franciscan missionaries reported and reacted to the calamity, why the casualties were disproportionately Indian and female, and what survivors did with the physical remnants of broken churches. Churches that collapsed on worshippers in Arequipa, Cuzco, Lima and Lisbon prior to 1812 are mustered for comparison. Overall, a pattern emerges of Catholics separating stone from bone in these tragic situations. |
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| Item Description: | Heft: Special issue of "Material Religion". Special issue is dedicated to Latin America, and really to Las Américas … |
| ISSN: | 1751-8342 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Material religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2017.1379375 |