A gentleman of habit - Peruvian Traditions - Fourth Series
This is true that if I threw out out the origin of many of the nobility scrolls in Peru agreed that the monarchs of Castile to loyal subjects, was to get Square filth of this magnitude would force the reader to neatly cover their noses with a handkerchief.
Chance recently put in my hands the will and papers of a gentleman who died in the early, and they clean bag in the following excerpt about the history of his lordship, who will baptize with the name of Don Juan.
Juanito in his youth was a huge skull. Andalusia came to Lima in search of the mother Galician (read wealth), and away from the aspire to find honest work, he debauchery and live a firecracker sticking to it today and beyond tomorrow.
being celebrated the ninth night of the Virgen del Rosario, very popular with people of tone, and the door of the church of Santo Domingo complained bitterly several beggars making charity contributions of devotees. Among them, the best harvest obtained from quarts and even columnarias was a blind, and that night had reached into the bowl to collect real twenty-seven, which were not a weevil. Suddenly, a guy who went through the door of the temple took away the plate, coins saved himself, and ignoring the protests and cries of the blind, quickly went his way and perished in the dreary streets of Grief.
The thief was the madcap of Juanito.
With twenty-seven actual beggar and ran a gambling house and began to aim. Some hours later he had won thirty ounces, which served to equip decently done gradually relations between the aristocracy argirocracia or silver, which, truth be told, Lima was much given to running wheels see Santa Apolonia. Noble to say, of course with the exception of any rule, was that player, and even the writer managed to find a gentleman of many bells lost in a stop in threes, a home-fifth and ten bags of a thousand with as many slaves. Just think what pompous around those players.
to the ladies of the aristocracy drew up to the plate and threw Jorge of an ear. Just remember what was Chorrillos until 1850. Many farms, so many kittens. There is not only shirtless men, but very pretty daughters of Eve threw paint was wonderful and more confidently that military campaign. Twenty-seven evils
the beggar had with them the blessing of God. They were like a charm for our Don Juan, they managed to fix the wheel of fortune. In less than five years, not only became one of the richest men in Lima, but even he found the habit of a knighthood, I do not remember if Santiago and Alcantara, and the house they built in the street. .. (Almost escapes me!) Was considered one of the best in town.
I have devoted an article to the description of the ceremonial used in Lima for the investiture of the Order of Santiago. I have no data on what was between us and Montesa orders of Calatrava, but not having them taken into Lima chapter, it is clear that within them were in Spain the endowment and not in America.
De Alcantara order only know that the investment was made in the church of Monserrate, whose parents lived Benedictine tenement, or in the chapel of Barranco. The ceremonial oath as follows:
- Do you swear to God and Holy Mary, and this signal the † do you put your hand, and the holy Gospels, which ye shall have well and faithfully fulfilling your duties as a knight of Alcantara? Is this you juraislo well?
"I swear," answered the candidate.
"God leave you to fulfill your soul's salvation and honor your body.
Then you wore the spur, ceñíanle steel, placed on his shoulders the white robe with green cross cantonada, neck colgábanle the scallop, and the Master, the clove or freire of the chapter said
- What promise to?
-stability and firmness. "God will
perseverance.
with the sword and giving a slight bump on his head, he added:
"God our Lord, to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary his mother, conceived without stain of original sin, and our fathers San Benito and San Bernardo , make you a good knight of Alcantara. Arise.
The new knight kissed the hand to master, clove or freire that he had invested, and was at an end the chapter.
As for the knights of Charles III, was in the palace chapel which was verified from office.
Back to our character.
Distinguiose this gentleman for his charity to the poor, because far from imitating other miserly that on Saturday they bought two or three dollars of cold bread for distribution among the beggars morning invaded the courtyard of the houses range, he distributed weekly among those unhappy the sum of twenty dollars in small change , in addition to the handouts that larger-scale and privately made. Whatever
compliance humility or penance imposed by the confessor, this is one of the clauses of his will established chaplaincy to perpetually might say, I do not remember how many Masses for the soul of blind door Santo Domingo, appearing with semicolons tell the story of the twenty-seven real. Already
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