Catholicism

=﻿Catholicism- The House of Bernarda Alba= A large Catholic church in Barcelona, Spain

-For most of recent history, Spain has been a dominantly Catholic country.

-The Spanish government seized all church lands within Spain in 1931, shortly before the time of the play, and in return agreed to pay the salary of all the clergy, taking over all the expenses owed to the Vatican.

-At the time of the play's publishing, the Spanish government had just renounced their end of the pact and stopped subsidizing the costs of the Catholic institutions

-The Vatican announced their support of Franco, whose regime overturned the old Spanish government that had controlled the church and also returned jurisdiction of the church lands to the Vatican.

-Catholic patron saints' festivals along with weddings comprised the principal events of Spanish traditional social life, especially in rural areas.

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