Catedral de Santa Ana
The Catedral de Santa Ana anchors Las Palmas Cathedral’s religious life as the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Canarias, and it stands beside the Plaza Mayor de Santa Ana in the Vegueta neighborhood. Its dedication is marked each year on November 26, tying the church to a calendar of local devotion. Work on the current cathedral began in 1500, during the episcopate of Fr. Diego de Muros (who died in 1524). The project reached a major milestone on the eve of Corpus Christi in 1570, when the first offices were celebrated under Fr. Juan de Alzolares, the fourteenth bishop. Later, in the 18th century, the building was reconstructed and refurbished after renewed work decisions tied to the bishop’s control of a large tithe surplus, overseen by Dean D. Geronimo Roos. …
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