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by Sylvester Baxter

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. ...Cathedral. Unhappily, the rage for restoration has sadly marred its effect with paint as well as despoiled it of most of its best adornments. The Churrigueresque high altar, however, with two paintings after Domenichino, has been preserved intact. The beautiful baptistry also remains unharmed, with its admirable fresco by the first professor of painting sent from Spain for the San Carlos Academy, José Ginés de Aguirre, depicting the baptisms of Jesus, Saint Augustine, and San Felipe de Jesus. The little chapel between the Sagrario and the Cathedral is said to have served as a baptistry at first, and is now called La Capilla de Soledad. The Sagrario was dedicated on January 9, 1768, and was subjected to important repairs succeeding the earthquake of June 19, 1858. CHAPTER v. OTHER TYPICAL CHURCHES OF THE CITY OF MEXICO AND ITs SUBURBS. N the years before the beginning of the sequestrat-I ing process that culminated with the wholesale confiscation of ecclesiastical property under the Reform Laws of I859, instituted by President Juarez, a very large part of the area of the on a magnificent scale and was surrounded by numerous chapels. Very interesting is the plan of the great assemblage of monastic edifices made by Senor Garcia de Cubas from his recollections of the place while the structures were yet intact. The church and the chapels were surrounded by a spacious atrium. There were magnificent cloisters with a refectory where 500 monks sat at their meals together, and there were beautiful gardens and a cemetery; the whole place enclosed by a wall strong and high. The present church was dedicated on December 8, 1716. Its finely proportioned interior is now bare, being stripped of the splendid ornament that originally characterized...

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Published September 13, 2013