George, It was not a "tax", it was a way priests found to collect money from the local people. It was a practice characterized as a voluntary contribution, but many times it became involuntary. In distant parishes, especially in the colonies, priest's income was too low to cover his basic daily life and this was a way they found to add more money to his living.
Unfortunately, many of these priests acted in abusive ways regarding financial resources and their life style, including concubinage. Also, in the colonies, not all the priests had a proper ecclesiastical education, which lead to this type of behavior and against the all the Canonic Law, precepts on how to be a "good priest", established by the Council of Trent, in the middle of the 1500's. The Roman Catholic Church tried to regulate this situation several times. Isabella Baltar myportuguesegen.blogspot.com On Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 11:09:03 PM UTC-4, migueldeavery wrote: > > Where did you get this information that a tax was paid by a person > receiving the Sacrament of Confession in the 19th century ? George > > Sent from my iPad > > On May 13, 2015, at 4:43 PM, Margaret Vicente <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > No problem. > > There was a tax that the Priests collected for each confession. It means > that they met their confession obligation and also paid the tax. In the > year 1830 it cost $80 Reis for each which used to be collected after each > confession. > > The Catholic Church has a mandatory obligation of confession of at least > one time each year in the period of the 40 days of Lent. > > Hope this helps > > > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 2:34 AM, Liz Migliori <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Thank u >> What does dis obligated mean >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On May 12, 2015, at 7:30 PM, Margaret Vicente <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >> Father Matheus (Mateus) Silveira, deceased. >> Her mother is Ana Maria. >> Lent of 1836 the groom was dis-obligated with the bride being >> dis-obligated in the current year >> >> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Elizabeth Migliori <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> >>> http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/FAL-HT-CEDROS-C-1829-1847/FAL-HT-CEDROS-C-1829-1847_item1/P65.html >>> >>> Need help with this one. Looks like father is Matheus Silveira???and he >>> is deceased wife is Rita Maria. >>> Rita Maria daughter of Jose Garcia Deceased???? can't make out her mother >>> Then what does it say about 1836? >>> upper right hand side. >>> >>> Liz >>> >>> -- >>> For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail >>> (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. 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