Монастырь Святого Франциска Ассизского
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April 21
While walking around old Havana, I did not fail to visit the old Franciscan monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, after all.. The monastery is dedicated to the 12th-13th century Catholic saint Francis of Assisi (Giovanni Francesco di Pietro Bernardone), a theologian, philosopher, writer and poet, founder of the Franciscan mendicant monastic order. The Marple was founded by the first Spanish conquerors of Cuba in 1548, reconstructed in its modern form (in the Baroque style) in 1738 and operated until 1841. After its closure, the monastery housed the archive, the post office, the Ministry of Communications, now the colonial and religious Museum, the concert hall and the garden of Maria Teresa of Calcutta. It is also the burial place of the colonial Spanish-Cuban nobility, even one viceroy of Peru rests here. The monastery's church is the tallest in Havana, with a bell tower exceeding 42 meters. The attraction of the monastery is the statues installed nearby, among which is the striking statue of St. Junipero Serra (Michel Josep Serra and Ferrer), a Spanish Franciscan monk, Doctor of philosophy and theology, nicknamed "the apostle" and "Father-founder of California", who founded 9 Catholic missions in America in the second half of the 18th century. including San Francisco, Sacracento, Los Angeles and San Diego. The monument was erected in connection with the preacher's stop in Havana on his way to Mexico. The monument features a Catholic monk hugging a naked Indian boy, symbolizing Junipero's pastoral efforts to convert the local population to Christianity. After endless Catholic revelations, the monument looks a bit defiant. Junipero Siera did not reject violence to convert Indians to the true faith, he practiced corporal punishment of neophytes, so in 2015, when Junipero was canonized, there were protests from the local Indian population. That's how ambiguous everything is..
interestingly, Saint Junipero brought the Criolla vine north to Upper California and in 1777 became one of the pioneers of American winemaking.
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