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Franciscan Monastery of Santa Ana del Monte

Jumilla, Altiplano, Murcia

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Franciscan Monastery of Santa Ana del Monte

Monument · Jumilla, Altiplano, Murcia

A mountain monastery of Discalced Franciscans located near Jumilla, next to the Jarra spring, in the Sierra de Santa Ana; it opened for worship in 1573 and remains inhabited by Franciscans of the Order of Friars Minor. It hosted San Pascual Bailón and the blessed Andrés Hibernón, and it has been the destination of the Bajada del Cristo procession since 1848. In its church is venerated the 17th-century Cristo de la Reja, and the chapel of the Cristo de la Columna holds a carving by Francisco Salzillo in cypress wood, the only one to leave the convent, in a pilgrimage; the main altarpiece is presided over by a 15th-century image of Santa Ana, and two 1613 reliquaries preserve relics brought from Italy by the Marquis of Villena.

Photo: María José Jiménez Guirao (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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