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The Hospital of the Venerable Priests of Seville, Spain, (popularly known the Hospital of the Venerable) is a baroque 17th-century building which served as a residence for priests. It currently houses the Velázquez Center, dedicated to the famous painter Diego Velázquez. It is located in the Plaza de los Venerables, in the center of the Barrio de Santa Cruz and close the Murillo Gardens, the Seville Cathedral and Alcázar. == History == In the year 1627 the Brotherhood of Silence (Sevilla) decided to protect the elderly, poor and disabled priests. To this end he rented a house where they were given shelter, assistance and maintained. This work continued until in 1673 the same brotherhood founded another, whose purpose would be to cover only the task that had been performing since 1627, and decided to build the Hospital. It was founded by Canon Justino de Neve in 1675 in order to be the residence of the venerable priests. From that year dates the beginning of construction of the building, under the initial direction of the architect Juan Domínguez, from 1687 takes charge of the works the architect Leonardo de Figueroa, it being completed in 1697. The church It was built in 1689 and is dedicated to San Fernando. With the means provided by the founder brotherhood, charity and facilities of monarchs, the institution remained, but come 1805 the institution reached its limit, almost had no means to support themselves. In 1840 the hospital became a textile factory hosted so were moved to one of the rooms of the Charity Hospital that enabled for them. Complaints of brotherhood founder got that in 1848, under a Royal Order, will be returned their property, the venerable priests returning to his old home. The Plaza de the Venerables is named since 1868. The file was in a lamentable state of neglect, the director of the General Archives of the Archbishopric, Pedro Rubio Merino, moved all the way down to the file as a deposit. It consists of 103 bundles some with antique 1503, being classified as such documents into sections Rules and Bylaws, Chapter Agreements, welcome, Factory, Personal Correspondence Endowments, Bursar, assets, rights and obligations, justice, Accounting and Miscellaneous. This archival information contains both the management of the hospital as customs and aspects of Sevilla of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hospital de los Venerables」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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