“Oh, on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes from clay, Be thou, O Christ! the sinner’s stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away!” We also find in this collection the hymn which is sung to the Virgin of Griefs in the Holy Week, and which begins thus:— “Stabat mater dolorosa Juxta crucem lachrymosa, Dum pendebat filius.” {127} This game dance is repeated in the cathedral of Seville on the 8th of December, the day of the immaculate conception of the Virgin, and during eight days afterwards, which are called an _octave_. In the present day this cathedral, as we have said elsewhere, has also the singular privilege of using ornaments of a sky-blue colour, which is not permitted by the church on other feast-days. These ornaments are of an incomparable value, and the chief one of them, called _capa pluvial_, is richly embroidered with pearls and precious stones. {148a} “Digo un responso por una peseta.” {148b} “Yo lo digo por media peseta.” {174} The word _alms_ in this case does not mean alms given away to the poor, but the money invested in the purchase of a copy of this bull, published and sold by the commissary-general, or by the different archbishops and bishops. If we consider that the bull is printed on a small piece of very inferior paper, and that it is sold for 7½d., and that every Spaniard in the Peninsula and its colonies is bound to purchase it, at the risk of incurring a mortal sin every Friday in the year that he eats meat without this authorization, we may form some idea of the enormous revenue derived from this source by the Spanish Church, and by the Roman See, which has a profit in the speculation. The Spanish Peninsula contains at the present moment, on a very low calculation, fifteen millions of inhabitants, the Philippine Islands four millions, and Cuba and Porto Rico together something more than one million. In Spanish America, from Mexico to Cape Horn, there are nearly sixteen millions of inhabitants subject to the Catholic Church, and his holiness grants to them likewise the privilege of the _Holy Crusade_ bull, with the further advantage of being allowed to cook their fish or vegetables with hog’s lard or beef and mutton fat, on those days too on which not even Spanish Catholics are allowed to eat meat. {176} The name given to the administration of episcopal property in the interval between the death of a bishop and the consecration of his successor. A part of the revenues of such sees during the vacancy went to the public treasury, and the other to the church treasury. {194} They so call certain women, who without being in the cloisters use the habit of nuns, and live in common together, in establishments called _beaterios_. {200} What Roman Catholics generally understand by repentance.