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Francisco Sánchez de la Fuente (1493 – 1496 Appointed, Bishop of Córdoba) Alfonso Carrillo de Albornoz (bishop) (27 Jun 1496 – 14 Jun 1514 Died) Francisco Ruiz (bishop), O.F.M. (14 Jul 1514 – 23 Oct 1528 Died) Rodrigo Sánchez Mercado (12 Jan 1530 – 25 Jan 1548 Died) Diego Alava Esquivel (7 May 1548 – 21 Oct 1558 Appointed, Bishop ...
It was built by the Order of Discalced Carmelites, as outlined by friar Alonso de San José, in the Carmelite style in the first third of the 17th century, supposedly on the site where Saint Teresa of Ávila was born.
It contains nine side chapels and five large, richly decorated panels with reliefs (attributed to Lucas Giraldo and Vasco de la Zarza). The middle panel is an alabaster piece, with a wealth of detail and structured like a retable, by Vasco de la Zarza and accommodates the tomb of Alonso de Madrigal, also named "El Tostado", a bishop of Ávila.
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The Convent of Saint Joseph is a monastery of Discalced Carmelite nuns located in the Spanish city of Ávila, in the autonomous community of Castile and León.It was the first monastery founded by Saint Teresa of Jesus, who had the support of such important figures as the Bishop of Ávila, Alvaro Hurtado de Mendoza, who was later buried there.
More than a venerable professor, "Father Master Avila" was primarily a preacher and closely friend of Ignatius Loyola. John of Ávila authored a "prayerful and sapiential" theology, based on the "primacy of Christ and of grace in relation to the love of God, for which he showed "a profound knowledge of the Bible", without setting forth a ...
Ávila (UK: / ˈ æ v ɪ l ə / AV-il-ə, [2] US: / ˈ ɑː v-/ AHV-, [3] ⓘ) is a city of Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León.It is the capital and most populated municipality of the Province of Ávila.
Ávila (Spanish: ⓘ) is a province of central-western Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León.It is bordered on the south by the provinces of Toledo and Cáceres, on the west by Salamanca, on the north by Valladolid, and on the east by Segovia and Madrid. Ávila has a population of 158,265 (2018) and is ranked 47th out of 50 of Spanish provinces in population.