La reforma beneficial del templo parroquial de San Miguel, en Aoiz

Abstract

With Fernando VI’s achievement of the Concordat with the Holy See in 1753, the monarchy tried to rationalise the administration of the parishes.
In Aoiz’s Parish of San Miguel Arcángel, different interests, both of an economic nature and of ancient privileges (fundamentally those of the convent of Santo Crucifijo in Puente la Reina, of the Pamplona convent of San Pedro de Ribas and, minimally, of the Royal House of  Roncesvalles), converged which diverted such a great part of the tithes provided by the faithful that, although there were many incumbents, the scarce funds, together with the small income received by the vicar, meant that the spiritual attention offered by the ecclesiastics to the faithful, who maintained the church and its...