In this historical and beautiful corner manchego, saw be born to two Saints: San Juan de Ávila and San Juan Baptist of the Conception. Also it was written I capitulate very important of the History of the "Carmelitas Descalzo", then Santa Teresa de Jesus and San Juan de la Cruz was above by their streets; they spoke with its neighbors and I prophesy Santa de Ávila, the sanctity of San Juan Baptist SANTO MAESTRO JUAN DE ÁVILA
He lived in the villa of Almodóvar, the marriage formed by Alfonso de Ávila
and Catherine Xixón. They were rich, owners of great you come and
possessors from mines from silver in Brown Mountain range.
They did not have children, and Catherine, woman of very deep faith, went
during thirteen days followed the hermitage of Santa Brígida, located in
a mount of rocks, brambles and olive trees to half kilometer of the city,
in continuous and very pronounced pending, which raised takes off and with
a rope fitted to the meats.
Day
6 of January of 1,500 was born the wished son to them so. A boy whom years
he advanced more would be: Advisor of Saints: to they went San Juan de God,
San Francisco de Borja, San Pedro de Alcántara, San Juan of Shore, San
Ignacio de Loyola and Santa Teresa de Jesus.
It has been called to him and to him it is continued
calling the APOSTOL OF ANDALUCIA, by the intense warm preaching, lives and
spontaneous in earth Andalusian. When dying their parents, sold the well-off
wealth that left him and distributed the money between the poor men.
Song his first mass in year 1,526 in Almodóvar. It
attended his studies in Salamanca and Alcala de Henares. In 1.531
Inquisición commanded to jail it, was there where better it learned and
it included/understood the mystery of Christ.
He is patrono of the Secular Clergy by his predilection
by the priests. It founded schools, that were authentic seminaries, where
formed the future priests. Their main devotions were the Eucaristía and
Maria the Virgin.
The day 10 of May of 1,569 in Montilla, province of
Cordova died. At the present time part of the house is conserved where it
was born, the " cave " in where it did penance sleeping in the
ground, and the baptismal battery. Day 31 of May of 1,970, its Sanctity
Pablo I SAW proclaimed its canonization solemnly.
Between its works it is possible to mention:
Epistolario, Talks to the priests, Warning and Christian rules, have been
spiritual food in multiple reediciones throughout the centuries.
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REFORMATION TRINITARIA. JUAN BAPTIST OF THE CONCEPTION
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| Juan Baptist of the Conception founded 18 convents of monks and one of closing nuns. He lived and he transmitted his children an intense spirit of charity, oration, withdrawal, humility and penance, putting special interest in maintaining the shared in common delivery to the captives and the poor men alive. The relation of the trinitarios with the Trinidad, like vital center and source of the charity that it redeems, it is a central subject in his experiences and lessons. | |
Alfredo Palmero, known popularly as the " Palmero Teacher " were born in Almodóvar of the Field in 1901. Its formation began in Madrid with its enter the Superior School of Beautiful Arts where it had by professors to Romero de Torres and Sorolla and by companions to Joaquin Valverde and Dark Gregorio.
He traveled later with a Provincial pension to Paris in 1923 and, in 1927, to Germany and Italy. In 1930 the death of Our Gentleman presented/displayed a panel " Don Quixote of Mancha " to the National Exhibition, and from the Thirties it worked like professor of Institute in Real City, Toledo, Murcia and Sabadell.
If before the war it had decided not to return to concur to the National
Exhibitions after not to have obtained medal in the one of
1930, as of 1939 and
after a exhibition in 1943 in Barcelona, account occurred that had to
change of style and to resign to the great formats since the customer to
whom she directed her work demanded reduced panels more, and of another
thematic one.
From this economic failure of the 43 it changed of
style and it happened of the " great subjects " to paint types
and places of the " Belle-Epoque " that at those moments of
Spanish shortage of all type had to enchant to the bourgeoisie, his main
consumer since then. A exhibition in Brussels taking advantage of the
wedding king Balduino, made him harvest an absolute economic success that
will not leave to him until its last days.
One of the great successes of this great painter,
notary of a time, has been the one to perpetuate in his linen cloths the
atmosphere and splendor of the coffees, as much those of Madrid, as Paris,
Vienna or Barcelona.
In fact its painting would be coherent with its ideas and thus it produced a great amount of panels of a colorista style and costumbrista with amiable subjects and it do not jeopardize.
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INSTITUTE PALMERO "
It is located in the building that outside house of the
artist, old big rambling house that had belonged to the Real House and
where the administration of the Real Valley of Alcudia was installed. It
is a house of two plants with
an
inner patio and other that was corral, today transformed into garden.
It is the typical example of a familiar private museum
and, although recognized by the Council of Education and Culture of the
Meeting of Communities, it does not receive any subvention, reason why the
financing is carried out exclusively by the children, after the death of
the painter in 1991.
It was founded on the Seventies to object to gather
part of the work of the painter, about two hundred panels, or some
examples of other contemporary artists. He is not open to the public of
habitual form and it is taught by means of request to the family in charge
of his maintenance.