FORPRAL's first aim was to make a complete inventory of the forbidden prayers in the indexes of prohibited books and to make an analysis of the complementary prohibitory documents, which were to be consulted in Italian and Portuguese archives. The extension of the Covid-19 restrictions made it necessary to make some adjustments: access to the Italian documentation through digitisations and to reduce the chronology of the Portuguese sources down to the last index of 1624, excluding from the analysis later documents. Even so, the objective of collecting the banned prayers was achieved and a complete inventory consisting of 88 titles was compiled. An important part of the work was devoted to identifying and locating these texts. This task entailed some difficulties caused by the effectiveness of censorship, which succeeded in erasing several of them from textual memory, and by the use of anepigraphic references in the prohibitory documents, where the usefulness of the prayer acted as a title (e.g. prayer to conjure rue). It was possible to trace and access the texts of 35 titles in at least one of the working languages. These prayers can be found in the digital catalogue of the website Forbidden Prayers Digital Library, the most important dissemination activity of the MSCA. For each prayer, one or more copies were located and collected indirect testimonies from works contemporary to prohibition. Where the copies have not survived, their content were reconstructed from other testimonies. An analysis of this documentation has revealed details of the way the texts were used -read, written, portable or tactile -and the virtues attributed to them- healing, controlling atmospheric phenomena, protection, or subduing the will of others. All this information is entered into the database files, together with a carefully written analysis of the key aspects of the origin and circulation of the prayer, and a select bibliography of existing studies on each text. The content is enriched with an image of the forbidden copy or a representative iconographic testimony of each prayer. The main objectives of this major task of documentation and selection were achieved: 1) to recover and disseminate this lost heritage of piety, 2) to increase the impact of the results of MSC project, 3) to publish this reference material in open access, useful for specialists of various disciplines; 4) to integrate the use of digital tools into the philological edition of texts in the field of European censorship studies. Initially, the development of the Forbidden Prayers Digital Library was conceived for the duration of the 24-month action. However, the volume of documentation and to some unforeseen events (the sanitary emergency and the suspension of the project for a period of one and a half months) made it necessary to rethink the website as an evolving space that will continue to develop in the near future until the maximum amount of information possible was completed and the eighty-eight titles listed were introduced.
Other channels have also been used for the dissemination of results, e.g. two Open Access articles will be published in high-impact journals (in press for 2023), the participation in several international conferences, the organization of one international workshop, the organisation of two training events for PhD students, the creation of a blog with updates to communicate research progress and a podcast. Due to the unforeseen events mentioned above, the dissemination of FORPRAL results will be extended until 2023.
