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Yesterday took place at the Cultural Hall CajaMurcia a conference scheduled by the Department of Culture, framed within the first quarter of 2014 activities.
Manuel Gea Rovira, was commissioned to conduct the lecture that dealt with the history and background of the Monastery of Santa Ana
Under the title, "Salvado Monastery and Glorious" Rovira explained documentadísima Gea and with elaborate features, the historic route of the birth of the convent of Saint Anne from the shrine of the saint, the influence of people and the election of the Council and reformed friars of St. Peter of Alcantara to found the convent chapel on August 4, 1573 and then move to lift convent of work in 1580, "with walls of earth coated thin layer of lime."
The convent, he explained, was small and poor, but at the end of the seventeenth century, important works that made him a true monastery, as it is called by different authors from the Council of the Villa, Canon Lozano and Lorenzo Guardiola were made with González Simancas.
Manuel Gea also spoke on the implications for the convents and monasteries after the wars of Elizabethan-Liberals and Carlists, why convents were suppressed to less than twelve religious, disappearing between 1820 and 1836, a total of 892 of the 1,940 convents that existed in Spain, with 30,000 monks of various religious orders.
"The state took many years to pay a pension to exclaustrados friars, being a crime of humanity leave them at the mercy of whether admitted in parishes, or their family being sick, ending in the most painful many of them begging," he said.
In this sense, one of the convents of Jumilla, who suffered these consequences was Las Llagas, which was burned.
About the Santa Ana Rovira Gea explained that "although they were not auctioned, stolen and abused his library, but fortunately survived these avatars".
Finally, the rapporteur, reviewed the heyday of the Monastery, in the twentieth century, after the harassment suffered during the previous century.
"Except the short involution of the civil war in 1936, the monastery remains attached to people and highly regarded for the work and collaboration of the city with his brothers, who appreciates him and give him fame and credit, as is all activity and host of people seeking their course offerings, spiritual retreats and tourism, "he said.
As a good writer Manuel Gea poetically ended his historic journey, saying "this monastery increases we light our eyes, we decided the infinite unknowns, teaches us to think with the mind of high flying and low flying discloses simplicity life and humility. seeks peace mind of the stars embodied in the face of the four holy Christs and Lady Anne and the color palette of God as Helpful painting our lives. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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