|
Ecuador » Riobamba » Museums »
|
| Museum
of Religious Art |
Brief Story of the Monastery
The Assembly of the Inmaculada Concepcion was started in
the XV century when the Franciscan Monastery of the Conceptionists
was founded, on April 30 1489 ,in the spanish city of Toledo.
Its creation is attributed to madre Beatriz Silva y Meneses.
The monarchs of Castilla were at that time Don Juan II and
Isabel from Portugal, parents of the queen Isabel, the Catholic.
According to the cronicals of the Monastery,
the foundation of the Convent in the old Riobamba took place
on June1605:
"...on June the 22th, the Village of villar
Don Pardo is parting, and let the bells sound; at the Mayor
church, his Grace Mr. Bishop Lopez de Solis, pontificial
dressed, get ready to welcome the eight shy travelers wich,
dressed in their white habit and light blue mantel, arrive
with numerous companion of priests, relatives and neighbours
of the villa. They are welcome with applaus and happyness.
They are noons of the Conception of Quito who are camed
to foundate the new Monastery..."
 On
Saturday the 4th of february 1797, some time before 8 o'clock,
an earthquake destroyed the old city of Riobamba. The Convent
was completely destroyed and only twelve noons survived.
The population decided to build a new city in a surer place,
refounding the city in 1799 in the place where it is now
located. The new Convento de las Conceptionists was then,
one of the first buildings to put up was the big house in
which was established the new convent of the Franciscan
conceptionists.
|
