The Real Colegio Seminario del Corpus Christi (RoyalCollege and Seminary of Corpus Christi) is a former Roman Catholic school and seminary founded in 1583 in the Spanish city of Valencia. It is located in calle de la Nau in the old city, opposite La Nau, the former Universidad Literaria.
The college complex was built between 1586 and 1615. It is structured around a large renaissance cloister enclosing the church, the communion chapel, the library, the sleeping quarters and the classrooms. There is another courtyard at the back and a small belfry is located in the corner of the plaza. [1] The Patriarch was designated a National Monument in 1962 and a Monument of Cultural Interest in 2007, and remains a principal example of the Italian influence on renaissance architecture in Spain.
Part of the building now hosts the Museum of the Patriarch. [2] [1] Of special note in the Patriarch Museum are paintings by Caravaggio, El Greco, Van Der Teyden, Benlliure, Ribalta and Pinazo, as well as an original manuscript by Sir Thomas More. [2] Also preserved there is the only surviving copy of the 1592 world map by the notable Dutch-Flemish astronomer, cartographer and Protestant clergyman Petrus Plancius, titled "Nova et exacta Terrarum Orbis Tabula geographica ac hydrographica" [3] .
Archbishop of Valencia Juan de Ribera, who founded the institution, arranged housing there for the Franciscan nun, mystic Sr. Margarita Agullona (1536 - 1600) so he could bear witness to her mystical raptures and for 25 years. When she died, he had her remains moved there. "He ordered in February 1605, that the body of the Venerable, who was incorrupt, be moved, and arranged that a burning lamp always burned before her sepulcher." [4]
Margaret Theresa of Spain was, by marriage to Leopold I, Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia. She was the daughter of King Philip IV of Spain and the elder full-sister of Charles II, the last of the Spanish Habsburgs. She is the central figure in the famous Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez, and the subject of many of his later paintings.
Juan Bautista Comes, aka per Valencian spelling Joan Baptista Comes, was a Spanish Baroque composer who was born and died in Valencia.
The Archdiocese of Valencia is a Catholic ecclesiastical territory located in north-eastern Spain, in the province of Valencia, part of the autonomous community of Valencia. The archdiocese heads the ecclesiastical province of Valencia, with authority over the suffragan dioceses of Ibiza, Majorca, Minorca, Orihuela-Alicante and Segorbe-Castellón. The archbishops are seated in Valencia Cathedral. On 28 August 2014, Pope Francis appointed Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera as the next archbishop of Valencia.
Moncada is a municipality in the comarca of Horta Nord in the Valencian Community, Spain.
Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa (1600-1667) was a Spanish Baroque painter. His father was the painter Jerónimo Rodriguez de Espinosa, who had relocated to that area and gotten married there in 1596. He was the third child, of six. His family returned to Valencia in 1612.
Giovanni Bizzelli was an Italian painter of the late-Mannerist period. He was a pupil of Alessandro Allori. He afterwards went to Rome. On his return to Florence he helped Antonio Tempesta in the decoration of the vaults of the Uffizi Corridor.
Vicente Juan Segura is the former bishop of Ibiza from his episcopal ordination on 14 May 2005 until 18 January 2020. Segura was formerly head of the Spanish section of the Vatican Secretariat of State.
Victoria Musicae is a Spanish early music group based in Valencia, Spain.
Ambrosio Cotes was a Spanish Renaissance composer.
Bernard of Alzira was an Andalusian prince and diplomat, later turned from Islam to become a religious brother of the Cistercian Order. He is a martyr of the Catholic Church, venerated particularly in the Valencian Community and Catalonia. The most important celebrations in his honor are held in the city of Alzira, of which he is patron, and the Poblet Monastery in Tarragona.
Valencian Gothic is an architectural style. It occurred under the Kingdom of Valencia between the 13th and 15th centuries, which places it at the end of the European Gothic period and at the beginning of the Renaissance. The term "Valencian Gothic" is confined to the Kingdom of Valencia and its area of influence, which has its own characteristics.
The Ara Christi Charterhouse, or the Cartuja de Ara Christi, is a former Carthusian monastery located just outside the town of El Puig in the province of Valencia, Spain. The site now includes a hotel and utilizes the facilities for functions.
Allegory of the Camaldolese Order is a composition by El Greco and his workshop that survives in two paintings, one at the Instituto Valencia de Don Juan in Madrid and the other at the Museo del Patriarca in Valencia. The paintings depict a bird's-eye view of the "ideal monastery" according to the Camaldolese, and were likely commissioned as part of Fray Juan de Castañiza's petition to Philip II in 1597 to establish the benedictine monastic order in Spain.
Lluís Vicenç Gargallo otherwise Luis Vicente Gargallo was a musician and composer from the Baroque period.
Margarita Agullona, also called Margarita Agulló or simply Sister Agullona or Beata Agullona was a Roman Catholic mystic nun and writer who lived in eastern Spain. She joined the Third Order of Franciscan nuns.
Margarita of Spain was an infanta of Spain, who died in childhood.
The Plaza Manuel Gamio is a plaza located in historic center of Mexico City, Mexico. It is located between the archaeological zone of the Templo Mayor and the tabernacle of the Metropolitan Cathedral. It was named in honor of Manuel Gamio, the archaeologist of the excavations of the ceremonial precinct of the Mexica, and includes the space between the streets of Moneda and a fragment of the República de Guatemala to the north. Due to its proximity to the Templo Mayor, it is a frequent site of important finds from ancient Tenochtitlan and due to its proximity to the site where the first urban layout of the current Mexican capital was made in 1522, it is close to places where the first headquarters of the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico was established, the first headquarters of the Mexican Mint, the archbishop's house and the aforementioned cathedral and the first Ethnographic Museum of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), among others.
María Teresa Oller was a Spanish composer and folklorist of the Valencian Community. Since the 1950s, she carried out extensive fieldwork to collect traditional Valencian music, highlight it, and make it known in numerous publications. Oller was a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia.
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