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Monasterio de Santa Catalina
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| Photo Information |
Copyright: JC Ramos (jramos)
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| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2005-08-09 |
| Categories: Daily Life, Architecture |
| Camera: Canon PowerShot S30 |
| Exposure: f/2.8, 1/1000 seconds |
| More Photo Info: [view] |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2006-02-22 22:59 |
| Viewed: 687 |
| Points: 4 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Considered a masterpiece of colonial architecture, this monastery is a large complex of rooms, picturesque plazas, ornate fountains and a maze of narrow, cobblestone streets. All streets within the monastery are named after cities back in Spain.
Nuns were cloistered within the walls and never left. However, some were allowed certain priviliges such as visitors, but these visits were overseen by a higher ranking nun. Interstingly, most nuns were of wealthy families and even more interestingly there was a social and occupational hierarchy based on your family's wealth. Wealthier nun had nicer quarters, more priviliges, better servants (oh yes, they had servants), and so on and so forth.
The idea of having these wealthly girls join the monastery was to get an "in" with Jesus/God through a family member's sacrifice and constant prayer on their behalf.
Today, the monastery still houses cloistered nuns, and therefore an entire wing of the complex is off limits to tourists. |
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