St Jerome Cloister Granada
by Joan Carroll
Title
St Jerome Cloister Granada
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art
Description
On a still warm day, all you had to do was close your eye and take a deep breath and revel in the scent of orange blossoms. A look above at the tower at the Monastery of St Jerome in Granada Spain gave me an inkling of the heat of the street. But down in the shade of the cloister and amid the heavenly (no pun intended) scent of orange blossoms, it was cool and delicious! I might not have discovered the Monastery of Saint Jerome (Monasterio de San Jeronimo) except I happened to stop in the tourist office. The Monastery of St. Jerome is a Roman Catholic church and Hieronymite monastery. It was originally founded by the Catholic Monarchs Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon in Santa Fe outside the city of Granada, during the siege of Granada, the last stage of the Reconquista. The encampment was so plagued with insects that the founders "did not look like Monks of St Jerome, but rather like those of St Lazarus, so badly were they stung and bitten." Thus, the construction of the current buildings in Granada properly began in 1504, and the monastery relocated at that time. Although occupied again today by the same order of monks as at the time of its founding, the monastery has undergone many vicissitudes, including invasion by the French in the Napoleonic era during the Peninsular War. The Hieronymites were expelled and the monastery eventually became a near-ruin. The State undertook a restoration of the building in 1916-1920. Further restorations took place over the succeeding decades.
FEATURED PHOTO, Spain The Mainland and Islands of Spain group, 1/15/16
FEATURED PHOTO, Spanish Theme Artwork group, 1/12/16
FEATURED PHOTO, The Road To Self Promotion group, 1/12/16
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January 11th, 2016
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