Santiago de Compostela, España
La Iglesia gozó en Galicia de un enorme poder, no solo por las rentas que percibía sino por disponer de una densa red parroquial que estructuraba un territorio complejo. Desde Trento, y debido al atractivo que la carrera eclesiástica tenía para las familias rurales, aumentó el número de clérigos y su diversidad interna, pues en el siglo XVIII poco más de un tercio ejercía la cura de almas. Los obispos encontraron grandes dificultades para reformar adecuadamente un clero numeroso, apegado a los valores y comportamientos propios del mundo campesino.
In Galicia, the Church possessed enormous power, not only because of the earnings they obtained, but also because they maintained a dense parish network that structured a complex territory. Since Trent, and owing to the appealing nature that an ecclesiastical career held for rural families, there was an increase in the number of clergy and their internal diversity, considering that in the eighteenth century scarcely more than a third worked as parish priests. Bishops encountered substantial difficulties to adequately reform the numerous clergy, who were attached to the values and behaviors natural to the peasant world.
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