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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 .
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.
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.
As churches unfurl pride flags and Black Lives Matter banners in front of their gates, young men are trending towards more traditional forms of worship.
Gothic church of St. Francis overlooking the Herrería Square. It is one of the mendicant-style churches in Galicia. Its plan is a Latin cross, with a single nave and a chevet with three polygonal apses. The church houses the tomb of the admiral and poet Payo Gómez Chariño, which dates from the 13th century.
The Pontevedra apparitions are the Marian apparition of Mary, mother of Jesus and her child, Jesus, that Sister Lúcia, the Portuguese seer of Our Lady of Fátima, reported receiving in December 1925, while living in a Dorothean convent in Pontevedra, Spain, and a visitation of the child Jesus by himself in February 1926, near the convent's garden.
O Burgo, next to the bridge that bears its name and on the banks of the Lérez, has been a strategic point of Pontevedra since the Romans (the Via XIX passed through here), and since the Middle Ages one of the entrances to the city from the north, as well as a crossing point on the Portuguese Way.
Initially, Argyle will be open only for lunch on the patio from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. Dinner service will be added in about three weeks with the hours of 5 to 10 p.m. daily.