Convento de Santa Clara de Asís (monument)
The Convento de Santa Clara de Asís—often called simply “convento de Santa Clara de Asís”—is a rare survival of women’s monastic life in the Canaries, because it was the first female convent in the archipelago. It was originally founded as the convent of San Juan Bautista in 1547, and it belongs to the Franciscan tradition in Catholic Spain. Its founding is tied to the early consolidation of the islands under the Crown of Castile: in 1547, by testamentary disposition of Alonso Fernández de Lugo, ten religious women arrived from monasteries in Baeza and Sanlúcar de Barrameda, with at least three already from Tenerife. For a time, the community could not live in a proper cloister, so they used the nearby Franciscan convent of San Miguel de las Victorias. That search for a permanent home lasted thirty years, until benefactor Olalla Fonte del Castillo offered houses for the sisters. …
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