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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Hermandad del Refugio Logbook #11028-z, Rare Book Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from the estate of Marion Austin Greene of Fredricksburg, Va., in October 1980.

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Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, April 1996

Encoded by: Roslyn Holdzkom, October 2007

Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, February 2021

This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Bayona, Mathias.
• Biel, Femmin.
• Brotherhoods--Spain--History--19th century.
• Charities--Spain--History--19th century.
• Hermandad del Refugio (Zaragoza, Spain)
• Spain--Social conditions.
• Zaragoza (Spain)--History.

La Santa y Real Hermandad del Refugio y Piedad (Hermandad del Rufugio) was the major charitable organization of Spain for 200 years beginning in the seventeenth century. Most members were noblemen. The work of the brotherhood was divided among La Vista, which distributed funds to the poor and the sick; Las Sillas, an ambulance service; and La Ronda, a night patrol which attempted to find and take in the destitute to prevent illness or death from exposure.

The collection is a logbook kept by La Ronda, the night patrol of La Santa y Real Hermandad (Hermandad del Rufugio), in Zaragoza, Spain, northwest of Madrid. Entries describe activities for specific dates, including individuals found and aided, money raised, and other matters, such as dealings with the Las Sillas ambulance service. Among those who made entries were Mathias Bayona and Femmin Biel.