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Quito Churches with legends
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Santa Clara
It was built in the XVII century by one of the most important architects of the Colony. He was the Franciscan Antonio Rodriguez. At first, it was an humble chapel. It was devastated by an earthquake in 1639.
This Quito's church and monastery has: one tower with bells, and a 18th century retable. This retable was made by a great artist from the Colony: Manuel de Samaniego. It also has an lowered room and and an alter built in Germany.
This religious ensemble was born in order to redeem the captain Juan Jose Galarza's soul, who was excommunicated because he had Popyan's Bishop injured insede the Catedral. His wife Francisca de la Cueva, after being widowed, decided to go with her two daughters to the monastery for a retirement. For this propose she bought all houses in the square, putting the building under Santa Claras de Asis' protection.
Capilla del Robo
It was built in the middle of the 17th century (1650), after the robbery of the Sagrario provisional chapel of Santa Catalina. The followers decided to built a definitive chapel in the same place where the little sagrario's trunk was. There were also its thrown oysters, at a side of Jerusalem's rivulet, inside Quito's historic downtown also called rivulet of the turkey buzzards.
In this Quito's chapel we can find sculptures such as: la coronacion de la Virgen, Santa Clara, San Francisco, Santo Domingo and others. All of them made by important artists from the Quito's Colony
San Roque
The father Brunning built this Quito's church at the beginning of the 20th century (1907-1916). It has got different architectonical styles: neo gothic and neo roman ones.
Its domes show flowered designs, traditional elements and important decorations . Some of the images we can see there are: San Antonio de Padua, and the image of the Virgen labradora. Inside the church the major retable is dedicated to San Roque. There is also the famous Christ of Pampite.
Santa Catalina de Siena
This is one of the most antique monasteries in Quito. It was founded in 1594 by the widow Dona Maria de Siliceo, her three daughters and six orphan's children from Quito. It was constructed inside Quito's historic downtown in 1615 in the place where was the important conqueror's house, Don Lorenzo de Cepeda y Ahumada. It also was the place of the historical Inca Agllahuasi palace. It was also called the virgin's palace, who was dedicated to the divine cult and to be the Inca's wife in order to keep their royal blood.
We can find in this monastery some vault and a colonialist religious art collection. An example is the Virgen de la Pena de Francia sourrounded of angels and and a boy who represents Jesus Christ. There is also an sculpture of Nuestra Senora de la Escalera from the 18th century. It is thought that Caspicara was its author. But there also are paintings from Rodriguez y Samaniego, a manger by Legarda, a mural in honour to the Virgen de las Lajas, by Fray Pedro de Bedon.
Legends and stories are part of this monastery. People tell that there was a none from the 19th century who foretold that there might appear certain circles like suns in the corners lightening the streets in Quito. She also said that there would be some cars running without horses through the streets. History tells that those predictions happened: the electricity light and the first modern cars arrived finally at Quito. But it happened something else she could foretell. She said that it would be blood the day that the church had its door. What in reality happened was that the church had the door and the next day, one attacker of the presidential police of Eloy Alfaro began the massacre.
We can also mention that people found the rests of the ex-president Gabriel Garcia Moreno in the walls of this church. He is now in another important church: La Catedral inside Quito's historic downtown. Nowadays you can buy in this church some products like: wine, syrup, creams made by the nones of the church.
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