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The complex adopted the name of San Lázaro on behalf of Lazarus of Bethany, the patron saint of the sick and lepers. From 1586 until the 19th century, Rímac district was known as the neighbourhood of San Lázaro after the temple. [1] During the 1586 Lima–Callao earthquake the complex suffered catastrophic damage. In 1606 the brotherhood of ...
In Cuba, the celebration of San Lázaro on 17 December is a major festival. The date is celebrated with a pilgrimage to a chapel housing an image of Saint Lazarus, one of Cuba's most sacred icons, in the village of El Rincon, outside Havana. [65]
The Chapel of Saint Lazarus (Portuguese: Capela de São Lázaro, also Igreja de São Lázaro e São Roque) is an 18th-century Roman Catholic church located in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The chapel is dedicated to Saint Lazarus and Saint Roch. The chapel was established as a hermitage to treat people with leprosy; it was later used as a quarantine ...
A Jesuit priest, Juan de Echazabal, started the devotion to Our Lady of Aránzazu from Spain and changed the patron of the town from St. Matthew to Nuestra Señora de Aránzazu. [1] In 1716, a new church was constructed on the site of the current church and placed the church of San Mateo under the patronage of the Nuestra Señora de Aránzazu.
San Lazzaro degli Armeni (Italian: [san ˈladdzaro deʎʎ arˈmɛːni], lit. "Saint Lazarus of the Armenians"; [5] sometimes called Saint Lazarus Island in English; Armenian: Սուրբ Ղազար, romanized: Surb Ghazar) [a] is a small island in the Venetian Lagoon which has been home to the monastery of the Mekhitarists, an Armenian Catholic congregation, since 1717.
The San Lázaro Roman aqueduct is a Roman aqueduct in the Roman colonia of Emerita Augusta –present-day Mérida, Spain–, capital of the Roman province of Lusitania. It was built during the first century to supply water into the city. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1912. [1]
Fuerte de la Caridad; Fuerte de San Lazaro (Fort of Saint Lazarus) Fuerte de San Miguel (Fort of Saint Michael) Fuerte de San Francisco; El Fuerte de Santa Barbara; Fuerte de la Carena; Fuerte Invencible; Fortaleza Ozama, a sixteenth-century castle that overlooks the Ozama River. Fuerte San Gil; Fuerte de San Jose (Fort of Saint Joseph) Fuerte ...
Map of 1900 showing the Caleta de S. Lazaro. In 1916 the dredging of the Caleta of San Lazaro began, in September the 1919 Florida Keys hurricane hit Havana and the rise in sea level raised the inland stretch that had been artificially created, the flood almost reached the Casa de la Beneficencia. In 1921, dredging was resumed and the ...