Patzcuaro / Pátzcuaro / Michoacán
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view of church exterior - cross - detail
Scene Description: a Tequitqui-style crown of thorns and other motifs
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view of church exterior - west façade
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21790PAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Convento de San Francisco [in ruins]
Church Location: 61600, Federico Tena 11, Centro, Pátzcuaro, Mich., Mexico -- Tel.: +52 (434) 342 0057
Country Name: Mexico
Location: Michoacán
Directions to Site: Located in the town colonial centre, at the Federico Tena and Ponce de Leon, crossing, off (E) highway 120, NE of Uruapan, SW of Morelia
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Michoacan
Century and Period: 16th century(mid?)
Church Notes: founded 1545; destroyed by fire 1867; re-built 1892; now in ruins
Font Notes:
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Nesvig (2018) informs on how Diego Pérez Gordillo y Negrón, "a cathedral dignatary, a parish priest, and the appointed strongman of Bishop Vasco de Quiroga [...] proceeded to demolish the baptismal font of the Franciscan monastery in Pátzcuaro"; the date of the sacking of the monastery is given in Nesvig (ibid.) as 16 June 1560.
COORDINATES
UTM: 14Q 226111 2160051
REFERENCES
Nesvig, Martin Austin, Promiscuous power: an unorthodox history of New Spain, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018