SPAIN OF TO-DAY 7 



Spain are national monuments and are more or less in need 

 of repair. Those who have seen the Cathedral of Barcelona, 

 with the scaffolding around its towers, or the Cathedral of 

 Seville, with the extensive works in the courtyard extending 

 along the northern side, will understand this. When one con- 

 siders the number of beautiful cathedrals, churches, abbeys, 

 and church buildings in Spain, models of Gothic architecture 

 to be kept in good condition or restored, one realizes the 

 amount of expenditure required. Then come the actual sal- 

 aries of the clergy. They are certainly not extravagant. The 

 Primate, the Archbishop of Toledo, receives $7,500 an- 

 nually; the Archbishops of Seville and Valencia, $7,000 

 each ; the other archbishops, $6,500 each ; two bishops, Barce- 

 lona and Madrid, $5,400 each ; four bishops, Cadiz, Cartagena, 

 Cordoba, and Malaga, $5,000 eacii ; twenty-two bishops, $4,300 

 each ; and the remaining bishops not quite $4,000 each. Deans 

 and archdeacons receive from $900 to $1,000 each; regular 

 canons, $800, and beneficed canons from $350 to $700; while 

 parish priests in the cities receive from $300 to $500, and those 

 in the country from $150 up. Assistant priests receive from 

 $100 to $200 annually. Truly it cannot be said to be a wildly 

 extravagant rate of pay ; and it needs the usual stole fees, such 

 as weddings, ceremonial baptisms, and the like, to eke out the 

 income. The specific appropriations for the maintenance of 

 worship and ordinary care and cleanliness of the churches are 

 as follows : each metropolitan cathedral, $4,500 ; each suffra- 

 gan cathedral, $3,500; and each collegiate church, from $1,000 

 to $1,500; while parish churches get an allowance proportioned 

 to their importance from a minimum of $50 up. Besides this, 

 diocesan seminaries receive an allowance of from $4,500 to 

 $6,000 each for the instruction and maintenance of candi- 

 dates for the priesthood. From these figures one can get a 

 very fair idea of how church expenditure in Spain is ap- 

 portioned. 



Besides the parochial, secular clergy just mentioned there 

 are several religious orders in Spain. The ordinary newspa- 

 pers, in reporting this fact, run them up into high figures 

 which is the veriest nonsense. What they mean, when they 

 speak of religious orders, are religious houses or separate 

 communities, and even these numbers they exaggerate. In 

 1909 there were 597 religious houses or communities of men 



