Los Jerónimos de Granada. Procedencia de sus riquezas

Abstract

The Jerónimo's Monastery of Granada, as other christendom institutions, has centered its religiousness on achieving the hereafter. In order to do so, the Monastery took care of its liturgical activity, and, furthermore, it ptomoted the trade not only of mausoleum chapels for the burial of the powerful ones, but also of masses and anniversaries for everyone. The income for those sales and services provided the Monastery with an incredible economic wealth which included more than 20.000 marjales wetlands, numerous and fertile gardens around the Monastery, mills, many rental houses, the biggest part of the cattle facilities in Sierra Nevada and some 10.000 sheeps and goats. More than 10.000 ducats of annual income allowed them to build a monastery and a Temple, both models of a splendid rennaissance style, as weel as to mantain a well-off and influential life, at the same level of that held by the olygarchic groups in town.