La Santísima Church
However, this is in dispute because some elements that are common in Rodriguez's other works are lacking here,[1] and some records indicate that architect Ildefonso Iniesta Bejarano was involved in the project.[2] The main portal is Churrigueresque style worked in "chiluca", a hard gray stone and flanked by two pillars.[1][3] In the arch, there is an icon of Ildephonsus of Toledo as well as a medallion with an image of Saint Anthony the Great, who became popular in Mexico at the time the church was built.[2] Both entrances are profusely decorated in the Baroque style, mostly with images of apostles, bishops and scholars accompanied by angels and cherubs.[1] On the side of the church facing Emiliano Zapata street, there is a niche flanked by small estipite columns.In 1567, a group of nuns of the Order of Santa Clara occupied the hermitage, rebuilding the badly-decayed building; however they abandoned the site only ten years later.The tailors' guild retook possession of the property and decided to make themselves into a more formal religious organization, affiliated with the Trinitarians.Around the same time in 1577, Pedro Gutierrez Pisa founded the Brotherhood of Saint Peter to establish a hospital–hospice dedicated to ill and old clergy.This clerical organization joined with the Trinitarians to gather the necessary resources, leading to the establishment of the Cofraternity of the Most Holy Trinity (Archicofradía de la Santísima Trinidad) which had four principal missions: bury the dead, visit the sick, evangelize and give lodging to pilgrims.
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