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police force called the Shurta. The
hermandades worked as
local militias to
protect the
towns they came from.
Hermandades also
curbed the
actions of bandits...
- professionalism, and education. In 2001, it
merged with the ConcÌlio
Nacional de
Hermandades Latinas. It
includes seventeen organizations. NALFO's
headquarters is...
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strong for the
Catholic community. The
processions are
organised by
hermandades and cofradías,
religious brotherhoods.
During the processions, members...
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carrying candles for up to 11 hours. The
pasos are set up and
maintained by
hermandades and cofradías,
religious brotherhoods,
common to a
specific area of the...
-
hermandades (also "brotherhoods", but in
Castilian Spanish) of Castile,
which were
paramilitary law-enforcement militias.
Similar to the
hermandades,...
-
stationed throughout the
provinces to keep order. In
medieval Spain,
Santas Hermandades, or 'holy brotherhoods',
peacekeeping ****ociations of
armed individuals...
-
warring in
Biscay had been
reduced by the
intervention of the
royalist hermandades,
capable of
drawing on the
revenues of
royal estates. In 1415 the corregidor...
- The
rough and
ready justice of the
Santa Hermandades became famous for brutality. The
original hermandades continued to
serve as
modest local police...
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sometimes holding Him in her arms. The
processions are
organized by
hermandades and cofradías,
religious brotherhoods.
Members precede the
pasos dressed...
-
design of
architect Leonardo de Figueroa. It is the seat of
various hermandades (confraternities
which parti****te in the
religious processions for which...
