Indulgences, choirs and recognition: The magazine of missions and papal missionary works in the unfaithful world, putumayo, 1925–1930

Abstract

Based on the Missions Magazine that was published and circulated monthly in Colombia from 1925, together with the Encyclical Rerum Ecclesiae issued by Pope Pius XI on February 28, 1926, I´m going to analyze the strategy implemented by the Catholic Church to finance the Missions in Colombia between 1925 and 1930, grounded on the obligatory linking of believers to a system of indulgences, privileges, choirs (10 people), prayers, financial contributions and recognition granted by the Pontifical Mission Societies: Propagation of the Faith, Holy Childhood and Saint Peter the Apostle for the formation of the indigenous clergy.