Hospital de Jesús Nazareno
Hospital and church de Jesús Nazareno | |
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Geography | |
Location | Historic Mexico City Centro, Mexico City, Ciudad de México, Mexico |
Organisation | |
Type | General |
Affiliated university | Nursing School of the Hospital de Jesús |
History | |
Former name(s) | Purísima Concepción, Hospital del Marqués |
Opened | 1524 |
Links | |
Website | www |
Lists | Hospitals in Mexico |
The Church and Hospital of Jesús Nazareno buildings are located in the
History
The Church and Hospital are supposedly located at the spot where Hernán Cortés and Moctezuma II met for the first time in 1519, which was then the beginning of the causeway leading to Iztapalapa. Cortés ordered the hospital built to tend to Aztec soldiers wounded fighting with the Spanish.[1]
In his last will, Cortés states that he wanted the hospital to be built for the sons of the Aztec warriors who had perished in battle during the Conquest of Tenochtitlan. This was not an institution for wounded Spanish soldiers.[2]
In 1646, the hospital was the site of the first autopsies performed on the American continent, performed to teach anatomy to medical students of the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico. In 1715, the hospital published the Regia Academia Mariana Practica Medica to promote more professional practices in the field of medicine in New Spain.[3] The building today continues to function as a hospital.[4]
Buildings
The complex consists of a church and the hospital divided into four sections.
Hospital
The Jesús Hospital is one of the oldest buildings in Mexico City. It was most likely operating by 1524, although this is disputed, since it was one of three hospitals started around the same time, and various records have different dates for the first opening.[4][6] The hospital with its church was originally called Purísima Concepción. At the beginning of the colonial period, it was popularly known as the Hospital del Marqués.[3]
The hospital was originally designed by Pedro Vázques, and Cortés left a number of farmlands in his will for the benefit of the institution. Cortés died before the hospital building was finished, and the colonial government of New Spain hired Alonso Pérez de Castañeda to replace Vázques. Six years and 43,000 pesos later, it was still not finished.
130 years later Antonio de Calderón Benavides was named head of the institution and worked to finish it. At this time the hospital received an image of Jesus of Nazareth, and the hospital was renamed after the image when it was finally dedicated in 1665.[6]
To one extent or another, just about all of major architects in the
Church of Jesus Nazareno
Murals
The Church of Jesus Nazareno was stripped bare. However, the choir and part of the nave conserve a long
The small dome resting on the church tower has an image of the
Cortés tomb
The remains of Cortés were placed in the church portion by Viceroy Revillagigedo in 1774. At the same time Manuel Tolsá created a bust of the conquistador as well as his coat of arms done in bronze.[6] Today, there is still a small plaque at the front of the church, to the left of the main altar to indicate the tomb.[1] However, in August 1882, there was a proposal to move the remains and place them next to those of some of the heroes of Mexican War of Independence, but this caused an uproar with some trying to desecrate the tomb in the church. The remains were removed to a secret secure site.[6]
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 9781566916127.
- ^ Alaman, Lucas (1849). Disertaciones sobre la historia de la república megicana, desde la época de la conquista que los españoles hicieron a fines del siglo XV y principios del XVI de las islas y continente americano hasta la independencia. pp. 98–138.
- ^ a b "Hospital de Jesús" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2009-10-16.
- ^ ISBN 968-5437-29-7.
- ^ ISBN 0-292-75210-5.
- ^ a b c d Olvera Arce, Guillermo (2000-05-13). "Hospital de Jesús Nazareno". El Universal (in Spanish). Mexico City. Archived from the original on 2009-02-24. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
External links
- Media related to Hospital de Jesús Nazareno, Mexico City at Wikimedia Commons