Convento de Santa Catalina de Siena (monument)
At the heart of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, the Convento de Santa Catalina de Siena is best known for preserving the “incorrupt body” of María de Jesús de León y Delgado—popularly called “La Siervita.” The convent is still run under strict enclosure by Dominicans: nuns of the Order of Preachers (Dominicas) keep it as a cloistered community. This house of worship traces back to the early 1600s. It was founded in 1606 by Juan de Cabrejas, a regidor of La Palma, and his wife María de Salas, after they bought the homes where the conquistador Alonso Fernández de Lugo had lived in 1600. The convent was inaugurated on 23 April 1611, with four nuns arriving from Sevilla, and it later grew to as many as one hundred. In 2013, the property was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural, category Monument. …
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