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The Holy Spirit Cathedral [1] (Spanish: Catedral del Espíritu Santo de Quetzaltenango), also called Quetzaltenango Cathedral, is a Catholic church in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. [2] [3] It was founded by the conquistadors, [4] shortly after having defeated the legendary local hero Tecun Uman. The city was dedicated by the Spanish to the Holy ...
The Church and convent of the Society of Jesus in Antigua Guatemala is a religious complex that was built between 1690 and 1698. It was built on a block that is only 325 yards (300 m) away from the Cathedral of Saint James on a lot that once belonged to the family of famous chronicler Bernal Díaz del Castillo and had three monastery wings and a church.
[1] By the 17th century, a devotion associated with an image became known as the "Miraculous Lord of Esquipulas" or the "Miraculous Crucifix venerated in the town called Esquipulas". Esquipulas holds its patronal festival on January 15, when the largest number of pilgrims come from Guatemala and neighboring Central American countries. [2]
The next day, in the forenoon on Friday, all gather again to pray the Royal Hours, [47] a special expanded celebration of the Little Hours (including the First Hour, Third Hour, Sixth Hour, Ninth Hour and Typica) with the addition of scripture readings (Old Testament, Epistle and Gospel) and hymns about the Crucifixion at each of the Hours ...
When Franciscan missionaries arrived in Guatemala from Spain in 1530 they were assigned 120 villages by the civil authorities. [1] They were the first to move to the Panchoy Valley in 1541 where they built a church at the site of today's School of Christ (Escuela de Cristo). This chapel was severely damaged in 1565 and during the next ten years ...
In 1773, the city of Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala was destroyed by the 1773 Guatemala earthquake ("Santa Marta earthquakes"); but as the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes -or "Oratorio de la Merced", as it was known in the 19th century- was not it suffered major damage because it was practically new, it was still open for ...
The Iglesia de Santo Tomás is a Roman Catholic church in Chichicastenango, Guatemala. It is located in the market place of the town which is known for its pottery and contains the Chichicastenango Regional Museum .
Assumption of Mary into Heaven (only in Guatemala City) September 15 Independence Day: Día de la Independencia: Celebrates the Act of Independence of Central America in 1821. October 20 Revolution Day: Día de la Revolución: Celebrates the "Ten Years of Spring," the democratic period that began with the uprising against Jorge Ubico in 1944 ...