“A MAYOR CULTO DE NUESTRA SEÑORA DE CONSOLACIÓN DE UTRERA”. THE CELEBRATIONS OF THE INDIGENOUS BROTHERHOOD OF THE LIMA MERCED CONVENT IN THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES

Abstract

Established at the end of the 16th century for the donation of two marian icons, the indigenous brotherhood of Santa María de Consolación de Utrera settled in the Merced's convent in Lima. Since that time the indigenous developed in this church a wide series of cults, with the approval of the friars. However, until the middle of the 18th century we have no documentary evidence that all these liturgical acts and festivities were regulated by constitutions. This organization fixed all the cults in the annual calendar and stipulated the cost of each one of them, thus revealing its gradation. Analyze these celebrations, their importance in the life of this indigenous brotherhood and financially verify that they were carried out, is the purpose of this work.