. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . Sefior Loaiza,in 1585; there are thirteen altars. San Lazaro. — The church of this name was founded in the year\ 563 for the use of the hospilal to which it was (hen annexed; but. 24 LIMA. owing to lh(3 frequent inundations Avhicli occasionally rendered com-munications impossible between the upper and lower parts of thetown. Archbishop Santo Toribio ordered, in 1004, that it shouldbe a chapel of ease to the Sagrario, and that it should be providedwith every thing necessary for the admin
. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . Sefior Loaiza,in 1585; there are thirteen altars. San Lazaro. — The church of this name was founded in the year\ 563 for the use of the hospilal to which it was (hen annexed; but. 24 LIMA. owing to lh(3 frequent inundations Avhicli occasionally rendered com-munications impossible between the upper and lower parts of thetown. Archbishop Santo Toribio ordered, in 1004, that it shouldbe a chapel of ease to the Sagrario, and that it should be providedwith every thing necessary for the administration of the a royal decree of 1746 , San Lazaro was made an independentparisli. This church has ten altars. CHURCHES OF EXISTING CONVENTS. La Merced. — The church and convent of La Merced were builtin 1534 by Hernando Pizarro, brother to the Conqueror, and cost700,000 piastres. The church has twenty-three altars. Several fes-tivals are celebrated here, the principal, which falls on the 24th Sep-tember, being that of the Virgin of Las Mercedes, patroness of thearms of the Tlie convent, at tirst built under the invocation of the Nativityof Our Lady, was afterwards called dc la Marlre do Bios de Id Mcr- .X ^.ssr* r , ..s- An 1 ^i w ^^^ 1 \ ^ ^^s^ ^.** ■3V*5i ^«- ?*«^ r^% ^*i^t S^ /-M\ lit i -^*-l^^ ^k
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