Memoria de las Obras de las Asosiaciones de Señoras de la Arquidiocesis de Guadalajara..

Guadalajara, 1889. Very good.. [2],14pp., plus folding plate. Later quarter calf and cloth boards, stamped in blind, gilt lettered. Minor wear to boards. Contemporary ownership inscription on title page. Even tanning. An apparently unrecorded account of this Mexican women's charitable association operating in Guadalajara at the end of the 1880s. The group was made up of more than 4,000 women, whose goal was to raise money for the poor and ill of the city. According to the documents here, they helped more than 2,500 sick people in the year prior to their general meeting, which took place in July 1889. All the positions in this association are occupied by women except for the general director, with the canon lector in that role. The report is fronted by an edict from the Archbishop of Guadalajara, calling the ladies' group, "Una de las mas importantes Asociaciones de Caridad que had nacido y se han desarrollada en la Santa Iglesia," and approves eighty days of indulgence for each work of charity completed. At the rear is a folding plate that prints the finances and funds raised by local groups across the state. Not in OCLC. (Inventory #: 5774)