Dramatized visit to the Dwellings of Santa Teresa

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An amazing journey awaits us at the hands of Teresa de Jesús herself with the dramatized Visit to the Dwellings of Santa Teresa. In a guided and dramatized tour in which we will learn about the vicissitudes that the Saint encountered when she arrived in the city to found the Convent of San José, we will walk through a cosmopolitan, dangerous city, full of riches and miseries, Seville. of the 16th century, to reach the convent that he founded with the help of his inseparable collaborator, San Juan de la Cruz. We will enter it to discover its history and most important spaces, we will visit the Church guided by the verses and writings of Santa Teresa and we will end up discovering, in the Sacristy, some of the most important relics of Santa Teresa de Jesús. The visit will begin in the Plaza del Cabildo, where we will understand how the arrival was and what impression one of the most cosmopolitan and dangerous cities of the Kingdom made on Teresa de Jesús. We will also learn about the harsh hardships that the nuns had to suffer to found their convent. We will take the opportunity to analyze the character's complex relationship with the Church and the Archbishopric of Seville itself. We will also delve into the world of the religious orders of the city at the time, we will analyze how they worked, what they were and what relationships they had between them and the Cathedral. Santa Teresa will accompany us to the doors of the Convent of the Encarnación, to remember the first dwelling of her of Teresa de Cepeda and Ahumada in Ávila. At this stop we will analyze her time in this convent and with a selection of texts from her work “Book of her life, the character will reveal her past and her first spiritual experiences. We will continue to discover the reason for the desire to form a new convent based on the original rule of Mount Carmel, and what were the effects of this reform. Through the streets of the Barrio de Santa Cruz we will travel with Teresa de Jesús to different parts of Spain, knowing how her trips were, the relationships she had with prominent figures of the time such as Saint John of the Cross, the princess of Éboli or the family of the Duke of Alba, we will also delve into many curious stories of the vicissitudes that he encountered on the paths he traveled until he concluded with his 17 foundations of Discalced and Discalced Carmelites. Undoubtedly the place where we can still feel the presence of Santa Teresa de Jesús in Seville, her convent moved here in 1586. On this occasion Santa Teresa will tell us how San Juan de la Cruz was in charge of moving the convent from Pajería to this place in Santa Cruz and why she could not be present at that time, spaces of the convent will be visited such as the compass, the lathe or the main locutory. In the Santa Teresa de Jesús Church, she will give voice to the masterpiece of Spanish mystical literature of the Golden Age, Moradas recited by her, let us better understand the literary and spiritual wealth of one of the most important writers of mystical literature. The texts will be interspersed with the artistic analysis of the church, relating the iconography with the fragments of the works of Santa Teresa.

Also through texts of other works of Santa Teresa we will discover the rules and the way of life of this congregation. Works to highlight in the Church: The main altarpiece is the work of Jerónimo Velázquez (1630). In the center the group of Saint Joseph with the Child (1620 work of Juan de Mesa, flanked by "San Juan de la Cruz" and "Santa Teresa de Jesús". Altarpiece of the Immaculate, work of Fernando de Barahona. It has in its central niche an Immaculate by Juan de Mesa. Altarpiece of the Incarnation by Luis de Figueroa dated 1627. The central altarpiece is an impressive canvas by Francisco Herrera el Viejo. The sacristy and its relics will bid us farewell to the Saint, in it we will discover the great legacy that Teresa de Jesús left after her death, we will be able to see the Original copy of the book of Las Moradas, the Portrait of the Saint, painted here in Seville by Fr. Juan de la Miseria (1576) and the own Relics of Santa Teresa. If you want to KNOW MORE about the adventures of Santa Teresa in Seville, you can listen to our #SevillaCuriosa section on the Radio Toda Una Amalgama program starting at minute 36:60

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