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Convento de la Merced, founded in 1607, is a Merecedarian convent, which now serves as a church, in the small town of Valdunquillo, in northern Castile. In the preface of the first Constitutions of the Mercedarian Order of 1272, three key elements referring to the foundation stand out: the name, the founder and the purpose of the Order.
By August 30, 1714, Friar Miguel Adame painted the four evangelists for the chapel of Jesus Nazarene, gilded by Juan José Ramírez Capitán. In 1730, the Virgin of Mercy was declared the "Patroness of the Fields of Lima" and taken out for the first time in procession. [1] In 1739, engraver Juan Francisco Rosa created the statue of the Lord of ...
Maria de Mercede, fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio (c. 1472). The Feast of Our Lady of Ransom (Nuestra Señora de la Merced) is a Roman Catholic liturgical Marian feast. In the General Roman Calendar of 1960, it was celebrated on 24 September, commemorating the foundation of the Mercedarians.
The Royal Convent of Jesús María and Our Lady of Mercy (Spanish: Convento Real de Jesús María y Nuestra Señora de la Merced) is a church in the historic center of Mexico City, Mexico. Originally a convent for orphaned and undowried girls, Jesús María was the third Conceptionist convent in Mexico City when it was formed in 1580.
As the 100th anniversaries of both cities approach, Merced County historian Sarah Lim writes about some of the key moments of their incorporation. Atwater and Livingston at 100: What did these ...
An early form of the monogram of Christ, found in early Christian ossuaries in Palaestina, was formed by superimposing the first (capital) letters of the Greek words for Jesus and Christ, i.e. iota Ι and chi Χ, so that this monogram means "Jesus Christ". [7]: 166
The home that housed Merced’s first Catholic Mass in 1872 was burned to the ground on Oct. 3. Located at 19th and Canal streets, it was one of the oldest, if not the oldest, homes in Merced.
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