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The purpose of this paper is to identify and study the documentation on benefices to parishes in the Ecclesiastical Archives of Mérida-Badajoz (Spain). In order to do this, an analysis of the history of the archive and its documentation is presented, in order to later focus on the beneficio curato, showing an approach to the process and a specific study of the documentation kept in these archives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Spanish seminaries have been educational centers of great relevance for the formation of children and young people since its constitution in the sixteenth century. For the tracing of a history of education in Spain, these ecclesiastical centers that bring new contents to the Spanish educational panorama cannot be left out. Within the various possibilities that these entities offer us, we show how the analysis of the documentation contained in their archives, as well as the bibliographical production collected in their libraries will provide new and very important data for the study of education in Spain from the 16th century to the present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The work carried out by the Catholic Church over the centuries in relation to caring issues is well known. However, few people are aware of Church records as a real testimony of these processes. In this article we want to give proof of this reality, trying to offer methodological guidelines to profit from the its rich archives. In particular, we will focus on seminars because of their role in providing support for children and young people through a vast system of scholarships and training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]