Iglesia del Pilar
At the corner where the street of Pilar meets San Lucas in the El Toscal area, the Iglesia del Pilar—devoted to the Virgen del Pilar—is one of Santa Cruz de Tenerife’s most important downtown churches. The story begins with an earlier, “primitive” hermitage, created from the city’s deep devotion to the patroness of Hispanidad, a devotion so strong that, until the Ayuntamiento banned it in 1792, women came to the main festival with their faces covered. The present church was financed by the priest José Guillén Pirón, whose portrait hangs inside. He also brought the image of the Virgen del Pilar from Zaragoza, and the church was blessed by Bishop Juan Francisco Guillén Isso on 2 February 1750. …
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