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The Basilica of Saint Mary Major (Galician: Basílica de Santa María a Maior de Pontevedra; Spanish: Santa María la Mayor) in Pontevedra, Spain, is a catholic church, dating from the 16th century, and consecrated as a basilica on January 10, 1962, by decree of Pope John XXIII.
St. Bartholomew's Church (Galician: Igrexa de San Bartolomeu; Spanish: Iglesia de San Bartolomé) is a Catholic religious building in the city of Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain. The church was built in the late 17th century in the Baroque style as a place of worship and pastoral activities for the adjoining Jesuit college .
The church houses the image of the Pilgrim Virgin (19th century), patron saint of the province of Pontevedra [2] and, in turn, of the Portuguese Way. Declared a historic-artistic monument in 1982, it is a mixture of late Baroque and Neoclassical forms, such as its main altarpiece , erected in 1789.
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela The Chapel of the Holy Souls in Purgatory is a small neo-Gothic [ 1 ] Catholic religious building located in the old town of Pontevedra ( Spain ), in Ánimas Street, [ 2 ] near Curros Enríquez Square .
According to tradition, the convent was founded by Francis of Assisi, who stopped in Pontevedra when he was on the Portuguese Way to Santiago de Compostela.The arrival of the Franciscan order in the city may have taken place in the last third of the 13th century, the building being constructed between 1310 [1] and 1360, with the economic help of the heirs of Paio Gomez Charino.
Dorothean convent in Pontevedra, now known as the Sanctuary of the Apparitions, in which Sister Lúcia lived and received Marian apparitions. Eight years after the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, the last surviving seer, known with the religious name of Sister Lúcia, was living in a Dorothean nuns convent in Pontevedra, Spain.
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Pontevedra city has an important group of squares of medieval origin and monumental religious buildings, including the Basilica of Saint Mary Major (16th century) with its plateresque Renaissance façade, the Baroque Church of the Pilgrim Virgin (18th century) with its rounded façade, the ruins of the Gothic Convent of San Domingo (13th ...