. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . ■) ■» 1 5 > > ) > 1 5 > ■) o I—t LIMA. 27 had the ground in question vaUied and paid for it out of his ownpurse. 71ie ehurch and eiuivcnt of the Franeiseans are the most sump-tuous in Lima, hotli internally aud externally. The altars arc richand of modern construction. Los Descalzos. — The church and convent of the Descalzos(Barefooted Friars) were founded in 1592 hy Father Andres Corzo,at the foot of Mount San Cristobal. The church has ten altars; inthe convent there is a h
. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . ■) ■» 1 5 > > ) > 1 5 > ■) o I—t LIMA. 27 had the ground in question vaUied and paid for it out of his ownpurse. 71ie ehurch and eiuivcnt of the Franeiseans are the most sump-tuous in Lima, hotli internally aud externally. The altars arc richand of modern construction. Los Descalzos. — The church and convent of the Descalzos(Barefooted Friars) were founded in 1592 hy Father Andres Corzo,at the foot of Mount San Cristobal. The church has ten altars; inthe convent there is a house of devotional exercises for men. The friars of this convent enjoyed certain revenues, but when theMissionary monks took charge of it in 1852 , they gave up the re-venues in order to live in the strict observance of their Francisco Solano belonged to this convent. Santo Doming-o.—The Dominican friars were the first ecclesias-tics who landed in Peru. Pizarro had seven monks of this order inhis suite and among them Father Vicente Valverde, who makes a. •^ .^^fei View ot the lirst Cloister ot the Dominican Convent. very prominent figure in the history of the conquest of South-America. 28 LIMA. On (he very day of llie ibiinding of Lima, Pizarro gave the Do-minicans a site for a convent. But, being occupi(!d Avith the service^of the Catludial and the administration of the sacraments, thefriars hved for some time close to that edifice in reed huts of theiroun l)iiikliui?.
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