Restos de Don Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada

Abstract

The image contains news about the location of the remains of the founder of Bogotá Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, which was thought to be inside one of the 2 vaults of the cathedral, this cathedral would be collapsed, after they called a Meeting to open said vaults with witnesses, a description of the circumstances of how the body of Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada was found, some of the people who were in the cathedral were the secretary of the Archbishopric, Arístides Fernández and the inspector of the cathedral neighborhood, Although there were several decomposing bodies, the remains of Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada were quickly recognized because the others had an ecclesiastical appearance. These same ones were the ones who left the remains inside a box with zinc and this wooden box was also placed on the table of the altar of the pantheon, in order to seek that God would receive him in his holy kingdom News published in the newspaper El Orden, No. 224, January 1, 1891