Bethlehemite Order Handbook
An inventory of the item at Syracuse University
Finding aid created by: MRC
Date: 8 Apr 2024
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Finding aid created by: MRC
Date: 8 Apr 2024
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Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Bethlehemites. |
| Title: | Bethlehemite Order Handbook |
| Dates: | circa 1700-1746 |
| Quantity: | 1 volume |
| Abstract: | Handwritten and printed rules and regulations for the Order of Bethlehemite Brothers in Lima, Peru; bound into a single volume with limp vellum covers |
| Language: | Spanish |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
The Order of Bethlehemite Brothers are a monastic order founded in Guatemala in the 1650s. They provided medical care and assistance to the local population throughout colonial Latin America; at its height the order ran 20 hospitals in various towns and cities. As of 2007 the order had declined to 17 members, all of whom were living in a single community at La Laguna, in Tenerife. (Two other Catholic orders are also known as Bethlehemites.)
The Bethlehemite Order Handbook contains handwritten and printed rules and regulations for the Order of Bethlehemite Brothers in Lima, Peru, bound into a single volume with limp vellum covers. Among the items bound into the volume are "Religion regla de Nuestro Padre San Augustin" and a papal statement granting privilieges to the order. All text is in Spanish. Two dates, 1739 and 1746; appear in the volume, but some items likely date from much earlier.
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Persons
Balcázar, Bernabe.
Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758.
Clement XI, Pope, 1649-1721.
Corporate Bodies
Bethlehemites.
Subjects
Monasticism and religious orders -- Catholic Church.
Monasticism and religious orders -- Peru.
Monasticism and religious orders -- Rules.
Places
Lima (Peru)
Genres and Forms
Incunabula.
Manuscripts (documents)
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Bethlehemite Order Handbook,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Purchase, 2024
Miscellaneous
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| SC 893 | [Rules and regulations for the order] circa 1700-1746 - handwritten and printed items bound into a single volume with limp vellum covers | ||||||||||
| Contains the following: Religion regla de la Nuestro Padre San Augustin - printed Constitusiones de la Sagrada Religion Bethlemitca - handwritten Actas formadas en el capitulo gral zelebrado en Lima el dia 11 de Junio 1739 anos - handwritten Benedicto Papa XIV - handwritten Clemens Papa XI ad perpetuam rei memoriam - printed, granting of mendicant order privileges to Bethlehemites [untitled item] - handwritten, 1746, signed Barnabe Balcazar, two other unidentified names |
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