Iglesia de San Francisco de Asís (Santa Cruz de Tenerife)

Church of St. Francis of Assisi
Façade
Religion
Affiliation	Roman Catholic
District	Diocese of San Cristóbal de La Laguna
Province	Archdiocese of Seville
Ecclesiastical or organizational status	Church
Location
Location	Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.
Architecture
Style	Colonial of the Canary Islands
Completed	1680
Direction of façade	East

The Iglesia de San Francisco de Asís (Church of St. Francis of Assisi) is a Catholic church located in the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain).

This church was originally a Franciscan convent and is now the second most important church of the city, after the Church of the Conception. The present church was completed in 1680 and notable for the large number of works of art he owns. The church has three naves and is one of the best examples of Baroque architecture in the Canary Islands.

Although the church is most famous because it is home to the miraculous image of the Señor de las Tribulaciones, a small picture that represents Jesus Christ, which is famous because after a cholera epidemic and morbidity in 1893, we made a procession with this image through the streets of the city and the epidemic stopped miraculously. For this reason the size is invoked as protector of the city and taking the title of Señor de Santa Cruz.^[1]

Gallery

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  Interior of the church
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  High altar
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  Señor de las Tribulaciones
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  Side nave of the church
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  St. Anthony of Padua
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  Virgin Mary in the façade of the church (exterior)
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  St. Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur, first canary saint

References

1. El Toscal recuerda hoy el milagro del Señor de las Tribulaciones

External links

• Parish website

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