Catholic temples of the Holy Spirit

AREQUIPA, Peru -Within the architectural panorama in Sancti Spíritus, its Catholic constructions have stood out over the years. Such is the case of the Parroquial Mayor and the Church of La Caridad, still present in the urban landscape, as well as the Hermitage of Jesús Nazareno, of which its thick walls and the archaeological site of the area it occupies still exist.

A report from the official newspaper Escambray cites historiography and its experts, who agreed that the Parroquial tower marks the central point of the half-league circle that establishes the limit of the town’s ejidos, indicating its former location in this place.

“The definitive formation of the area took place when in 1690 the Franciscans founded, to the north of the Parish, the Ermita de la Vera Cruz and its new plaza, which became Serafín Sánchez Park,” the text states.

Around 1716, they built the corresponding convent. Both buildings, the hermitage and the convent, were demolished at the beginning of the 20th century, when the civic plaza was expanded and the city center moved there.

The location of the Catholic temples also establishes the direction of urban growth in the direction, first, of the square of the convent of San Francisco and, then, towards the Hermitage of La Caridad, founded around 1717 and defined as the second dedicated to the patron saint of Cuba on the island.

For its part, the Hermitage of Jesús de Nazareno is a temple of which the original construction details are unknown, although its existence was already mentioned before 1689. Near the hermitage was the Convent of Santo Domingo, of which no trace remains. graphic testimony.

In 1816, a hurricane left the hermitage in ruins and led to the suppression of the Santo Domingo hospice. By order of Bishop Espada y Fernández de Landa, the temple was rebuilt and a bell tower was added.

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