The rosary and the confraternities in Andalusia. A historical approach

Abstract

The Rosario in Andalusia is much more than the par Marian devotion or the iconography of the Virgin repeated in most temples in their villages and towns. It is primarily a socio-religious structure that marks the existence of people from the sixteenth century until the first half of the twentieth century and still survives in many of its manifestations. The Rosary was born as a vocal and mental prayer is expressed in an audit, but that soon becomes palpable aesthetic in the images of the Virgin with this dedication, in the guilds and brotherhoods, but it was a specific phenomenon of religiosity popular since the late seventeenth century with the use of public or street Rosaries