Value: DEVOTION IN SPAIN

BY: Yuliette Marcela García Kure

Universidad de la Sabana

DEVOTION IN SPAIN

Throughout history religion has been a topic discussion, creating different positions in those countries and descendants of Spain. So you may know the influence of devotion in Spanish region, just how the religion influences the political and cultural development of a wonderful country.

Catholicism became the state religion in 1851, when the Spanish government signed a Concordat with the Vatican that committed Madrid to pay the salaries of the clergy and to subsidize other expenses of the Roman Catholic Church.

Thus we can see that Catholicism is the predominant religion in the country, most cities are Catholic and conducted various activities to make its largest faith. For example Spanish people hikes performed during Lent and people realize meet some traditional visits to the dead as a special day of the week holy, and also people make visits to churches and perform prayers, also tradition to go to church every Sunday. In each of the artistic monuments of Spain there is any religious image. But there are also other religions as Protestantism, Judaism, Islam (all since 1992), Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses and Buddhism, the latter accepted in 2007. Religion in Spain has had strong influence in art, literature and music. Most museums, as previous mentioned has meaning of the Catholic Church. Artists like Velazquez, performed works with religious messages, Christ Church, Popes, among other works show the influence of the church.

Anyone who visits Spain should be aware that almost all the cities have relationship with the church and this to develop in buildings, museums and in the different religious celebrations.

if you want more about devotion in Spain:

http://www.spainexchange.com/es/viajar_espana/seccion-7.htm

es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religión_en_España