Fortress of the Constables of Castile in Medina de Pomar (Burgos). "A tall towers high
. de Medina de Pomar.
. Blue Outdoor turret
. to see if you can see the sea!
. towers At my brunette! "
. [Rafael Alberti, Love Poems, 1967].
A warm August Castilian, walking through Medina de Pomar (Burgos), we reached the street Juan de Ortega, number 3. There, after a popular local restaurant, it masks the abandoned structure of what appears to be a dilapidated and ugly " block of flats. "However ... The June 1, 1973, the Council of Ministers, declared "Historic and Artistic National character" to the town of Medina de Pomar. Since then, protection of the assembly is under the protection of the State, exercised through the Fine Arts, which is then transferred to the Ministry of Culture of the Junta de Castilla y León. In 1997, the Ministry of Tourism, "for the magnificent work for promoting heritage conservation and improvement of quality tourism" , gave the village, the Prize "C" Tourism ... Even if someone, it should have stated that there is not conserved and spread equally around the capital.
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Following our erratic wandering, we reached the corner of Calle San Francisco, where he attached to that restaurant, we came upon an old hut, in which angle bracket features a Gothic. What does that stand there, still holds the remains of a rib, an old boot of a vault? Perhaps there was a monumental building, now gone? The city of Medina, founded during the repopulation Mozarabic was the Crown, with their own charters since 1147, until Henry II gave estate to Pedro Fernández I Velasco (1335-1384). In this prosperous city, came into being one of the best examples of coexistence between communities in three Hispanic cultures medieval Christians, Jews and Muslims. For his political, cultural and trade was so important in the initial development of the kingdom of Castile, although it was not merindad own, was the capital of Castellanas Merindades until 1560, when the title passed to Villarcayo.
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When puzzled, we turn the corner ... Surprise! The "block of flats", and the old hut, we show the remains of past greatness. Large and small Gothic arches, stone and capitals, whisper that there was a mighty medieval building: the Convent and Church of San Francisco. Want a pious tradition, the "poor man" Francis of Assisi, passed through this village, around 1214, when he crossed the kingdoms of Spain, a pilgrimage to Compostela. During his stay in Medina founded a small convent, which by charity and pious devotion of his brothers did not take long to grow. The truth is that, in 1233, the Convent of San Francisco, was part of the Seraphic Province of Castilla, and so continued until, in 1514, established the Province Franciscan Burgos. In the Historical Archives of the Franciscan Fathers, we find numerous accounts of patronage that brought monarchy and nobility of this major, since the confirmation of privileges by King John in 1339, to tax exemption Fernando VI in 1751.
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After dodging refuse containers, parked cars and jump over a crumbling wall, we enter into a plot full of weeds, which contested to a manure pit and paradise for rats. From there we look at the rear of the block of flats ", which actually is! Part of the high nave of the Gothic Franciscan church! With buttresses, corbels, and arched window disfigured! The fame of the Franciscan Madinans attracted vocations, and in 1313 Sancho Sanchez de Velasco founded on the same Medina, the Convent of Santa Clara-Franciscan-female branch, making your family vault temple . Velasco, sponsored the Poor Clares as much as the Franciscans, the same with goods for a living, and works of charity, which works of art for worship. The buildings were enriched with additions in the ss.XVI and XVII. And despite suffering the seizure of Mendizabal, in 1836, Madoz, in 1855, and the Carlist War (1872-76) that The convent became a barracks and hospital, forcing the relocation of the Poor Clares to Barruelo (Burgos), after these conditions returned and restored religious convent. However, the Franciscans did not return, and their convent was lost in ruin and oblivion ...
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The back of the old hut, which uses the remains of the convent buildings of the cloister, perhaps, keeps the bottom of the south facade of the temple, with a pointed vain, because his ship was contain at least two more installments of which we see today. The Convent San Francisco, was also a center of singular importance, spiritual and intellectual. Here lived, the venerable Fray Pedro Villacreces (1350-1422), scholar, theologian, and his disciple Blessed Fray Lope de Salazar y Salinas (1393-1463), mystical writer. Both spread the reform of its order by the Franciscan Province of Burgos, founded the convent which formed the Custody of St. Mary of the Child. Among them, Our Lady of the Lilies Alveinte in Monasterio de la Sierra (Burgos), on the ruins of an abandoned monastery of the Order of the Temple. At the end of his life Fray Lope, retired to the Franciscan convent at Medina, where he died and was buried.
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After confiscations and wars, the magnificent Gothic church of the Convent of San Francisco, eventually parceled as "tenements." Its slender lancet windows, lost the exquisite tracery and stained glass windows, which were replaced by prosaic closures and rough wood glass, wrought iron balconies rude. . Pedro Fernández de Velasco II (1399-1470), First Count of Haro, the "Great Conde de Haro", a great benefactor of the Franciscans and senior member of the kingdom, in 1460 retired to the Hospital de la Vera Cruz, who had founded in Medina, there to end his days away from court intrigues. Although his retirement was forced to leave the convent, to mediate the conflict between the Castilian king, Henry IV, his brother Alfonso. After mediation, the de Haro, he returned to the Franciscan convent, where he died in 1470, and was buried in the habit of the order. Relative of "Good Count" and protected him, was cited Fray Lope de Salazar, probable author of the work Confessions and many examples (BNM Ms.9535, olim. Bb. 161), owned by the lord Haro, held here in 1455, and that was a copy of the famous Book of Confession Medina de Pomar , work anonymous, written in the Franciscan Convent, among ss.XIII and XIV.
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Eaten by brambles and weeds, boarded up and lost their sculptured sarcophagi remain two arcosolia who kept the graves of some members of the Velasco family, as protectors of the Franciscan Convent. If your funeral effigies were so exquisite, as preserved in the Convent of Santa Clara, we can only exclaim: Sic transit gloria mundi ... famed The Book of Confession Medina de Pomar , is a summa confitendi , a manual for development the sacrament of penance. When dealing with mortal sins, he says, referring to the fourth:
. "the sin of sloth: In this sin there are three branches. The first is sadness and neglect good deeds and well fazer. This is the omne Quando falls in anger and in sorrow HEART but none for non fazer wanting nin receive him good advice. The second branch is laziness asy spiritual ones fazer other goods as alms, prayers, and r to the church and the like. The third branch that originates d'sin is despair. This is the Quando is omne the sin of negligence and laziness, and think that their deeds as they were many and bad, of the amendment he made, never nin quale penance, and puts culprit s can be saved " .
. A whom it may concern: awakening the "sloth", away from whether the "Devil Meridian" and since anyone who could would not, do that now, anybody can. lesson on past mistakes, of powerful devoured by time, and seek to be better steward of cultural objects themselves. But, if anything is dominated by the "laziness and neglect fazer good works", go to pillory and stocks, to eat the hard bread and drink the pain bitter water of despair. For ever and ever.
. Health and fraternity.
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