Religiones

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Religions NEWSPAPER OF SANTAFE DE BOGOTA No .265 January 6-1797 Page , 1614 The two, of Preachers and . Serafica, [which were. the first] run with equal time in its foundation, verified on August 6 . d e 1550. The Dominican has spread throughout the Kingdom to 19 Convents, and the Franciscan counts 22. The Convent of Recollection of N.P.S. Francisco with the title of San Diego was erected in this city in the year 1610. The Religion of N.P.S. Augustine gave beginning to his (-) Already from the Year of 1577 this City had solemnly sworn to endow him party like to its special Patroño against the many yerlos that sterilized its Fields. Said election was by public auction made in the Cathedral Church, where the name of this Saint came out three times, without having put it among the certificates that contained the cup of lots, according to what Father Zamora writes at the

Zamora writes to the foundation in this Capital the year of 1575 (1) and the convents of which it consists in the day its province are 13. That of the Recollects of the same Holy Patriarch began in 1604, and was erected as a separate Province from that of the Religious of the common observance in 1660. (2) The Religious of St. John of God founded in this capital in 1635. By both town councils, the Hospital for the poor, which had been erected in 1556, was given to this Religion erected in 1556, with whose rents and others that later have contributed several rich neighbors and of eximia piety exists this great House on a quite advantageous footing having already 14 Convents in the whole province. -The PP. of the extinguished Company settled in this Court the year of 1604 and after having obtained the direction of the Royal College, Major, and Seminary of San Bartolome until the same day of their expulsion. they left founded in all the Kingdom 13 Colleges, or Houses of their Religion, including the Missions that they had. NOTE The Monasteries of Nuns of this Capital are the five of which we have already spoken in the inserted note to fol 1595. Of the N262; but at the time of the N.S. de la Concepción it should not say 1795, as it appears in some exemplars, but the year of 1595, which was when it began. To avoid diffusion we do not insert here the other Monasteries of Nuns that there are in other Cities of this Kingdom, and to give place to the following news that seems to us more proper of our subject.