A collection of inscriptions located in the two passageways connecting the cloister of San Fernando …
The altar/chapel of San Lorenzo was founded in 1282 by Don Sebastián, archdeacon of Castro. …
The eleventh stage took Francisco Guerrero and Francisco Sánchez from Samaria to Bethsaida, on the …
Bells were one of the first objects that, along with liturgical vestments, gold and silverware, …
The convent of Santa Clara de Huamanga (= Ayacucho, Peru) was founded by the encomenderos Antonio de Oré and his wife Luisa Díaz de Rojas in 1568. From the monastery …
In 1562, Luisa de Vargas entered the convent of Poor Clares in Cuzco (Peru). Her dowry of 500 pesos was used as part of the payment for the organ that …
The relics of San Torcuato, coming from the monastery of San Salvador de Celanova (Orense), arrived at the church of San Lázaro in Guadix (Granada) on February 27, 1593. The …
In 1592, in the monastery of San Salvador de Celanova the tomb of San Torcuato was opened and part of his relics were distributed in different places of the crown …
The church of Santa Isabel de los Abades was one of the parishes created in 1501 in the northern part of the Albaicín neighborhood. The depopulation as a consequence of …
The post mortem inventory of Francisco de Zúñiga y Guzmán Sotomayor, III Duke of Béjar and IV Count of Belalcázar, carried out in 1544, allows us to know the extraordinary collection of …
In the writings and in the biographies of many mystics, phenomena of religious ecstasy caused by the hearing of a song are narrated. These eventes occurred frequently among the Discalced …
Read articleFrom the founding of the convent of San Francisco Casa Grande, in 1507, until its confiscation in the 19th century, eighteen confraternities had their headquarters in this Franciscan monastery in …
In January 1566, Francisco Guerrero traveled to Lisbon to present his Liber primus missarum to King Sebastián of Portugal, to whom he had dedicated this print in the first instance. …