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The Iglesia de San Idelfonso is a Baroque style church located in the center of the historic city of Toledo, in Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It is also known as the Jesuit church and is consecrated to Saint Ildefonso of Toledo, patron of the city and Father of the Church.
Construction
Its construction, took longer than 150 years, began in the year 1629, on lands acquired by the Jesuits of Toledo in 1569 where were the houses of Juan Hurtado de Mendoza Rojas y Guzmán, count of Orgaz,[1] and that it had also been the birthplace of Saint Ildefonsus. Pedro and Estefanía Manrique, high Castilian nobility's members, were the promoters of the erection of the temple, as it was written in the founding documents:
Since it is tradition that the glorious saint Ildefonso, archbishop and patron of the city, was born in these houses where we now make this foundation, and because of the great devotion that we, Don Pedro and Doña Estefanía Manrique, have to this glorious saint, we want and it is our will that the invocation of the said church, that is to be so, be of this glorious saint and that its image be placed in the altarpiece of the high altar in the most main place.
— Founding document.[2]
Its approach following the example of the Jesuit churches of Palencia and Alcalá de Henares and also the one of the Church of the Gesù, that is in the city of Rome and is the main church of the Company of Jesus. This trace has been attributed to Juan Bautista Monegro, at that time main master of the Cathedral. However, it was not he who would be in charge of the construction of the temple, but Pedro Sánchez, a Jesuit brother, reason why the original designs were modified, which entailed changes in the facade and In the header. The Jesuit architect Pedro Sánchez died a few years later, in the year 1633, and was replaced by another companion of his order, Francisco Bautista, who built the facade and reredos of also Baroque style, that dominates the city from its elevated position. After several years, in 1669, Bautista would leave his place to Bartolomé Zumbigo, native architect of Toledo, who finished the towers and the facade. Already entered the 18th century, in 1718 was consecrated the still incomplete work, which still had to finish the sacristy, the main chapel and the octave, which contains the reliquary. Almost half a century later, in 1765, the construction of the temple, which in its final stretch had been directed by Jose Hernandez Sierra, architect of Salamanca, was finally completed. Unfortunately for the order of the Jesuits, only two years after the expulsion from Spain by order of king Charles III of Spain under the charge of having were the instigators of the Esquilache Riots, which had taken place in 1766. [3] The Company of Jesus did not recover the church until the 20th century.}}<ref>The Company of Jesus did not recover the church until the twentieth century.[1]
References
- ^ a b http://viajarconelarte.blogspot.com.es/2013/01/toledo-monumental-v-la-iglesia-de-san.html
- ^ Tourist information brochure of the church of the Jesuits. Retrieved on September 24, 2013.
- ^ Antonio Domínguez Ortiz (2005). Charles III and the Spain of The illustration. Madrid: Alianza Editorial. p. 140. ISBN 84-206-5970-3.
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External links
- Iglesia de San Ildefonso, toledomonumental.com (in Spanish)
- Iglesia de San Ildefonso, Turismo de Toledo (in English)
