| Item Call Number |
FP00161 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
FP00161 |
| Local Free-text Call Number (oclc) |
- Classification number - FP00161
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Geronima Garcia Yanez
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| General Note |
- General note - Franciscan sister, headed of the group that founded the first nunnery in the country--the Santa Clara Convent in Intramuros--in the 1600s. Exactly a century after Magellan discovered the Philippines, the first nunnery of the country, the Santa Clara Convent in Intramuros was established. The pioneering Spanish sisters belonged to the Francisacan Order and were headed by Sor Geronima Garcia Yañez who arrived in Manila on August 5, 1621. On the lot of which the wealthy resident , Ana de Vera had donated, the Santa Clara monastery was constructed by Father Diego De laTorre, A Franciscan, who made "not only a house of prayer but also a temple of art". Located at the northern terminus of Calle Cabildo in the Walled City, the building of massive volcanic tuff was a rectangular structure roofed with typical red tiles. Connecting it were the chapel and the vicar ''s cottage on the south. For over three centuries , the convent remained on this site and was transferred only to its present location in Quezon City following its destruction during the World War II by the Japanese. Within its walls, veiled nuns wearing sack-cloth robes devoted to their days to prayer, choir singing and daily menial work. A native of Toledo, Spain, Sor Geronima took the habit in August 1570, when she was only 15 and following her recovery from an illness during which she "took an oath of serving God if she would get well". Leaving behind her father Pedro Garcia Yañez, a lawyer, she sailed for the Philippines with 10 sisters. she died at the age of 75 in Oct 1630. Long afterwards, her body was found to be miraculously intact.
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| Ownership And Custodial History |
- History - Lopez Memorial Museum
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| Local Note (rlin) |
- Local note - La madre Geronima, fundadora del Convento de Santa ClaraCaption Note)
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| Subject Chronological Term |
- Chronological term - c. 1876
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Spaniards
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| Subject Faceted Topical Term |
- Focus term - 1600s
- Focus term - 1970
- Focus term - europeans
- Focus term - franciscan order
- Focus term - intramuros
- Focus term - nuns
- Focus term - religious
- Focus term - santa clara convent
- Focus term - women
- Focus term - women religious
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