Convento Santo Domingo  

        9 of July and 3 of February - Santa Fe - Argentina                        

 

The order of Preachers, vulgarly known as Dominican Order or of Holy Sunday, founded by Holy Sunday of Guzmán (Spanish), confirmed by the Pope Honorio III December 22, 1216, was being extended since then for all the regions of the world, under the impulse of the spirit that him to print its founder. To example of Holy Sunday, a man that with every justice has been called “Hispanic genius of the medieval Christendom ”, its children continue evangelizing as the preachers of a truth that illuminates and inflames the spirit. It conserves today full validity the alluring project of Christian and human life that Holy Sunday proposed the men of its time. The motto that polarized its apostolic business –its order- of “to contemplate and to radiate it contemplated”, continues being in our ideal days and program of life for all those that form the great Dominican family.

The Convent of Holy Sunday is one of the oldest institutions of the city of Holy Faith, to which has accompanied in all the vicissitudes of its history.

In this tight synthesis we want to report , to the ones that do not they know it about the action of the religious of Holy Sunday and of the valid motives for the statement of Historic Monument of the Temple and convent.

HISTORIC'DATAS ON THE CHURCH AND HOLY CONVENT SUNDAY OF HOLY FAITH

Conserving the historic relics is to do country, and enters more prized of the Province of Holy Faith, the convent of Holy Sunday is found and Temple of Our Lady of the Rosary, of the capital city, that since the whiteness of our country was the chosen place to celebrate meetings that the men of the interior performed for summarize then the independence Argentina.

Just as it indicates it Fray ...........Of the Cross Saldaña to Take up again, in the year 1600, remains installed in the old city of Holy Faith, the convent of the Dominican order. The same one was called with the dedication of San Pablo First Hermit and its church under the sponsorship of Our Lady of the Rosary. It transferred the city al present place, the church and the convent occupied the place that today form the corners of streets 3 of February and 9 of July.

The influence of the Dominican Order in the events of Holy Faith, was notorious. In its cloisters the first schools functioned; its priests participated in the meetings of the city Halls and in the form of the Treaties, as in the house of Mariano Loved, friend of the General one Artigas.

The temple was like an old sanctuary of the old santafesinos and in 1811 is heard in its precinct one of the first allusive sermons to the historic date of May 25.

In 1810 it had been lodged in its cells the General one Manuel Belgrano, that in motion al Paraguay with its expeditions members, preferred to be lodged in the Convent. Is in this same church where Mrs concurred Gregoria Pérez of Denis.

In the atrium of the church , they were performed in colonial epochs, swears it of the new kings and the walk of the Banner Defendant. Then, in the time of the emancipation , there they evolved the Soft and the Dragons of the Country. It encloses to the Church was in other epochs the cemetery, where many personalities illustrate they found the eternal rest.

The historic chronicles, the memories of the epoch, the scholars as Cervera, they have left documented in their pages all the past of this temple and Convent. The church suffered transformations through the time, since the primitive one until that of today. Hugo epoch, that of it finalizes reconstruction of the temple in 1895, that was called to this church: The Vatican one of Holy Faith.-

The plant of the temple, that has the form of a latin american cross, occupies 75 meters of long for 12 of wide and its cruisers are of 9 for 5 meters. A single ship with predominance of an ionic architectural line is comprised of. It shows off two towers elegantísimas, of graceful cut, that excel with valentía on the buildings of the south neighborhood of the city; the dome, unique in its kind in Holy Faith, is elevated to 50 meters of height and serves of lighthouse or guide to the large ships that enter al port santafesino.-

The temple and convent where The General Belgrano prepared and organized its goes al Paraguay, encloses in its environments remainders illustrate. There they are the of the patrician one Gregoria Pérez of Denis, those of Francisco Antonio Candioti, call the Prince the Gauchos and Governor of Holy Faith; the of the parents of the General Brigadier Dn. Estanislao López; the of the Governor of Cordoba, General Juan Baptist Busts; the of the Governor executes in the Pellet of Vergara , Mr. Sunday Cullen; the of the Founder of the Museum of Art of Holy Faith, Mr. Martin Rodriguez Galisteo; those of Patrician and Tomás Cullen; those of Bartolomé Aldao, and so many other that figured in the history of Holy Faith. In the pantheon of the community, al foot of the altarpiece of the high altar, are the ashes of Fray Mariano Loved, signatory of the tried the Stream of the China; of Fray Victorian Piedrabiena; of Fray Hermenegildo Argañarás ; of Fray Antonio of the Cross of the Valley; of Fray Augustine of Holy María Ferreiro; of Fray Cornelius Etchave and other that had special meaning in the religious life and

Among the valuables that still keeps this church, they are distinguished:

A diadema silver of the patriarch Holy Sunday of irreproachable execution , donated by the family of Gives. Rose of Lacoizqueta in 1792.

A diadema silver of the patriarch San Francisco.

Four confessionals of columns salomónicas, worked by a slave from the convent at the beginning of the 18th century.

An image to dress of Jesus of nazareth.

An image of wood (colonial) of the Virgin of the Traffic.

An image of wood of San Raimundo of Peñafort.

An image to dress of the patriarch San Francisco.

A cloth of the Assumption of María, of the Italian school in the epoch of its glory.

Two large batteries of marble for holy water, donated by D. Zenón Lassaga.

Valuable paintings as “The inhabitant of Cuzco” and “San Ignacio of Loyola”.

The interior of the temple decorated and stuccowork, shows off twenty magnificent Medallions painted by Give Juan Cingolani, painter of the Vatican one, represent saints and pious of the Dominican Order whose images are not found in the altars of the church.

The vitreaux of the dome, brought and donated by the lady Rose Galisteo of Rodriguez, eight on the whole, represent scenes of the life of N. Holy Father Sunday of Guzmán.

The existing altars at present are the following:

1. The major, with the image of wood of the Sma.Virgin one of the Rosary and that of the patriarchs, Holy Sunday of Guzmán and San Francisco of you Grasp of wood carved and dressed of canvas and queue. In the upper part a picture with the image of San Pablo First Hermit , owner of the convent.

2. To the right the altar of Jesus continues him of nazareth (old of the Calvary, of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and of the Virgin of the Pilar). It is the altarpiece but old that possesses the church and dates from the 18th century.

3. Altar of San José, of marble, donated by D. Apolinario Cistern and Mrs. In the year 1903. to both sides the images of holy Teresita of the Boy Jesus and San Ramón Unborn. In the niche of the center the Sma. Virgin of Guadalupe, patroness of the Arquidiócesis.

4. Altar of the Smo. Name of Jesus (reformed ) old of the Sacred Heart of Jesus- with the image of the Sweet Name of Jesus that October 8, 1908 cried.

5. Altar of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (previously of the Virgin of the I Travel) sponsored by Esmeralda Rodriguez of Zapata.

6. Altar of Holy Tomás of Aquino, sponsored by Gives. Josefa Eat of Cullen.

7. Altar of San Martin of Porres (previously of San Raimundo of Peñafort) sponsored with gifts of the town santafesino.-

8. Altar of San Vicente Ferrer, donated by Mrs Tomasa Iriondo of Cullen.

9. Altar of Holy Rose of File (reformed and decorated ), with the images of San Juan Macías and Holy Catalina of Sienna.

10. Altar –side room of the Virgin of the Rosary of Pompeii, with the images of Holy Sunday of Guzmán and Holy Catalina of Sienna. To both sides of the altar there are two large cloths with the Virgin of the Rosary of Fátima and the Virgin of Lourdes (this donated by the French Community in 1944).

The pulpit of cedar was sent to build for the P. Fray Lucas Rodriguez Cotelo in 1871.-

The crossings of iron that crown the towers of the church have the following inscriptions:

YEAR 1895 a ; FACES ME FECIT (CONSTRUÍDO WITH THE CHARITY OF THE FAITHFUL) the other.

The altar of the Smo. Name of Jesus, reformed after the prodigious fact of October 8, 1908, was blessed by the General Teacher of the order of the Preachers Fray Luis Theissling, June 16, 1918. It was the first Teacher of the Order that visited our country and in testimony of it planted the graceful pine that is conserved in the conventual garden.

The relicario that keeps the tears of the Boy Jesus was donated by the lady Tomasa Iriondo of Cullen in 1917.-

The image of the Boy Jesus was entrusted by the R.P. Fray Hyacinth Estévez al Valencian sculptor Was worth and al arrived port of Buenos Aires March 13, 1906. According to express train the P. Estévez wanted an image that impressed to the santafesinos and removed them of its apathy. The Sculptor, resident in Barcelona, implored the Virgin and by inspiration created the image as saw it.

DATA CRONOLOGICOS ON THE CONVENT AND CHURCH OF

HOLY SUNDAY OF STA.FAITH

1600-Diciembre-: The first religious one dominco that arrives at these lands is the P. Fray Juan Veloso, who appears causing removing transfer of a real decree.

1604-26/Julio-: It remains founded the FIRST S.PABLO PREACHERS CONVENT HERMIT (such is the official holder of the convent), in Holy Faith of the Quiloazas, desúes Cayastá, to caargo of P. Fray Acacio of Naveda.

1651-20/Abril: Begins the transfer from the city to its present place. To the Children of Holy Sunday is assigned them, as to the demas existing communities then , its corresponding solar one.

1670-30/Mayo-: The convent remains finally finished with the aid pecunaria of the grand master of Field Mr. Antonio of Edge Muxica (File of the Prov. of S.FAITH).

1690-: It begins to build a new Temple, therefore the previous one was set on fire.

1710-: The husbands Pérez tame two thousand pesos and the master sergeant Mr. Francisco of Ziburo along with the Prior Fray Pedro Carranzan begin to build a new Church.

1786-7/Enero-: The Prior Fray Bernardino Fruits gathers to the community to treat to near the measures to be taken because “the church authorization al I am used”. (Conventual file.)

1798-12/Abril-: Under the direction of the Prior Fray José of the Rosary Forest himself “ begins to work in materials to remedy the ruin of the Church”.

1805-26/Agosto-: He gathers the community and they approve the bases for the new Church, according to plans arrived from Buenos Aires and under the direction of the Master Boatman.

1810-2/Octubre-: Belgrano writes to the Meeting saying: “I am lodged in the convent of S.SUNDAY, decision that took for cause expenses to no individual. The P. Prov. Fr. Isidoro War and the P. Prior Fr. José Grela, as all the others religious of that community, they do me all the honor and possible service.....” ( File Gral. Of the Nation , x.2.4.15 , fol. 70-70v).

1810-8/Octubre-: To this day is lodged Belgrano in the convent and in interín receives the donations of the town santafesino, especially of the Dominican tertiary Brothers Mr. Francisco Candioti, that told him: ”Have everything that I have, General, here and in my stays from among Rios” and Mrs Gregoria Pérez of Denis, the first patrician Argentina, that offered him all its “estates, houses, servants, since the rio Feliciano hasa the they placed of the Stakes....”

1810-29/Octubre-: Again lodges in Holy Sunday the General one Mr. Manuel Belgrano , when the Paraguay returns from.

1811-25/Mayo: In the Church the P. Gray Pedro Pablo Gómez pronounces the first native sermon in which the memory of the new government was celebrated.

1811-: The works of the new Church are paralyzed. The P. Prior Fray Francisco Soosa in the inventory carried out by order of the P. Provincial says: “he is begun another Church with her cruiser, whose walls will have of height two sticks, all of lime and brick, besides the foundation that are of stone and lime....” ( Conventual File).

1813-: Again it directs their word authorized the P. Fray Pedro Pablo Gomez in the Church Headquarters, because of the installation of the National Assembly they give Buenos Aires.

1813-: They resume the works of the Church and in the memory of the P.PRIOR Fray Francisco Dull , reads itself: “continued the Church that already was begun and they raised themselves as four or five sticks of the wall of the presbytery, cruiser and of two niches of the altars.... two sticks were done more than foundation....” ( Conventual File).

1815-: It is buried in Holy Sunday with the habit of the Dominican Order, by its will, the “Principe of the gauchos “ and first native governor Mr. FRANCISCO ANTONIO CANDIOTI.

1819-Setiembre-: The works of the new Church are interrupted. The presbytery and the cruiser, they were found al starter of the vault, with their high windows finished.

1821-: Inexplicably and being person under arrest the construction of the new Church, begins to build another temple in charge of the P. Fray Antonio of the Cross Valley, finishing it to him completely in 1837.

1823-10/Diciembre: It is buried in the Dominican temple the first patrician Argentina MRS GREGORIA PEREZ OF DENIS, tertiary Dominican and exPriora of the Brotherhood.

1830-19/Setiembre: They receive burial in the temple the remainders of the General brigadier Mr. Juan Baptist BUSTS, former governor of Cordoba.

1840-: They enter al temple of Holy Sunday the remainders of the former Governor of Holy Faith in the 1836 and executed in the Pellet of Vergara in 1839 Mr. SUNDAY CULLEN.

1877-23/Marzo-: They are placed in the Dominican temple the remainders of the former Governor of Holy Faith in 1862, PATRICIAN GIFT CULLEN, sacrificed in the Bits.

1890-: At the end of the priorato of the P. Fray Gregorio of the Pains Squire the idea that procupaba to the community was that of continuing the Church interrupted in 1819. the primitive plans were not found and to continue it there was that to draw them again, task that was in charge of the alquitecto JUAN Baptist ARNALDI.

1892-13/Abril-: The P. Prior FRAY AGUSTIN MARIA FERREYRO WHITE calls the parents of the counsel to treat the matter of the prosecution of the works of the new Church.

1892-6/Setiembre-: They formed the commissions of lady and gentlemen to collect funds for continue the work of the temple, principle to the purchase of materials is given.

1892-27/Octubre-: Itself reinicial the works ousting the sacristy and the presbytery of the old church (1821), to begin the construcición of the presbytery of the present church. (Conventual file).

1893-17/Junio-: The building of the new sacristy is proposed (present) and to open the foundation of a new parallel cloister to the church, to modify the square of the convent, in agreement al flat of the Arq. Arnaldi.

1895-17/Julio-: It is arranged to do two new bells to premiere the new towers.

1900-26/Mayo-: In meeting of community directs itself that the pavement of the temple should be put not of baldoza mosaic, but of mosaic of shiny gravel.... Therefore would be the first paving of that class in this city. ( Conventual file).

1904-26/Octubre-: The lady Josefa Eat of Cullen donates the altar of Holy Tomás of Aquino With its statue of size. The convent initiates a collection to build the altar of San Raimundo of Peñafort (today of San Martin of Porres).

1905-15/Enero-: It it is considered proposed for the construction of the altarpiece of the church (high altar). The donation is accepted of the Dr. Josué Gollán.

1905-3/Agosto-: The obnispo of Holy Faith Mons. Dr. Juan Augustine Boneo, blesses the new high altar of the Church.

1905-3/Octubre-: Official inauguration of the church and blessing of the image of the Virgin of the Rosary, brought of Barcelona.

1906-28/Mayo_: The P says. Fray José María Menéndez in its memory al to finalize the priorato: “In the center of the apple was construído the convent , all he of ancient building and in complete ruin in its greater part....” Consequently firm contract to begin to build the south wing of the present convent.

1906-7/Noviembre-: The contract with the mister is approved Francisco Gimeno to raise , to paint and to gild the altar brought of Buenos Aires. It is the oldest one than possesses the church and dates from the 18th century. At present is dedicated the Virgin of the Traffic.

1907-13/Junio-: It is determined to place the altar of the Smo. Name of Jesus in the arch that remains among that of San José (1903) and that of N.S. of the Traffic (1906).

1908-8/Octubre-: A miraculous fact in the image of the Smo is produced. Name of Jesus al to run for its cheek two tears that have remained clearly marked in the image.

1909-4/Julio-: The contract signs itself to build the north wing of the present convent.

1912-3/Abril-: In charge of the Dominican Province Argentina the works of the School are initiated Apostolico and General Training, being built the western wing of the present convent.

1914-18/Abril-: Falls for land the ancient School Holy Sunday, forerunner of many of the ones that flourish today in Holy Faith. Was tambien the “last remainder ”, all the remanente of the old convent.

1918-2/Mayo-: The Brotherhood of the Sweet Name of Jesus is authorized to reform the altar of the Boy God.

1918-16/Junio-: The General teacher of the Order of Preachers, Fray Luis Theiling, in its First visit to the convents of America, blesses the altar remodeled of the Boy God. In the same date and as memory of its visit plant in the jardin conventual the pine that all we know.

1918-11/Julio-: In charge of the Brotherhood of the Sweet Name of Jesus, begins to paint to stucco the church , in charge of them made famous artists CINGOLANI and MARINATED.

1919-6/Junio-: As complement of the decoration, is authorized to paint twenty medallions with the lump of some saints and pious of the Dominican Order.

1936-4/Agosto-: An artistic spider of wood carved is placed, built by the master carpenter Mr. Leonardo Giuccione.

1938-1°/Enero-: The new Parish of Our Lady of the Rosary is inaugurated.

1939-1°/Octubre-: It is inaugurated and blesses the side room of the Virgin of the Rosary of Pompeii , built by initiative of the P. Fray Enrique María Rodriguez. The low-reliefs carries out MARINATED them.

1946-5/Noviembre-: The image of San is blessed Martin of Porres and is placed in the old altar dedicated to San Raimundo of Peñafort.

1960-1°/Octubre-: Because of the 150 years of the step of the General one Manuel Belgrano by Holy Faith, they are carried out the “Days of May” that request the statement of historic Monument for the convent santafesino.

1967-31/Julio-: The Parochial Meeting of Our Lady of the Rosary interests al Governor of the Province, rear Admiral Eladio M. Vázquez for the statement of historic Monument of the convent.

1976-1°/Octubre-: It is closed the activity of the Parish of Our Lady of the Rosary.

1979-8/Noviembre-: To request of the Institute Belgraniano of Holy Faith the managements are resumed again to declare historic Monument al convent, being interested in the processing the Governor of the Province, Vicealmirante Aníbal Desimone and the Director of the General Military Lyceum Belgrano, Colonel Mr. Pedro I Will Be with the guarantee of the delegate of the National Commission Dr. Federico Cervera.

1982-24/Febrero-: By decree Nro. 388 of the Executive Power of the Nation, is declared the Convent of Holy Sunday and temple of Our Lady of the Rosary , including the atrium and the grille that encircles it, in its present state of Factory , MONUMENT HISTORICO NATIONAL.

COMPLEMENTARY DATA:

1 - The plant of the temple, that has the form of a latin american cross, occupies 75 meters of long for 12 of wide, and its cruisers are of 9 for 5 meters. It shows off two towers elegantísimas, of graceful cut, that excel with valentía on the buildings of the south neighborhood of the city, with a height of 37,50 m each one, the crossings of iron that crown the towers have the following inscriptions: a Year 1895, the other Faces me fecit (built with the charity of the faithful), the bells are three: a dedicated to the Santísima Virgin of the Rosary (1867 ), The other two they dedicated al Holy Patriarch Sunday and with the dates of 1895 and 1896, the dome, unique in its kind in Holy Faith , is elevated to 50 m of height and serves of lighthouse or guide to the large ships that enter al port santafesino. The Vitreaux of the dome, sixteen on the whole , donated by the lady Esmeralda Rodriguez Galisteo of Zapata and Pains Rodriguez Galisteo of Iturraspe, represent scenes of the life of Holy Sunday of Guzmán and noticeable figures of eminent Dominicans.

2 - In the interior of the temple we can admire four magnificent confessionals, of doubtless regional craft: they are of cedar and they are beautifully carved with figures and corresponding emblems al Holy Sacramento and to the Professorship, according to a version very diffused , they were worked and hanchonados by hand for four slaves freed , neighbors of Holy Faith, that had to their service the community.

Another treasure of incalculable value is the image of Jesus of nazareth that is found entering the church, to the left. The head, the hands and the feet are of wood carved, is an image of “to dress” that already was found in the inventories of the Dominican church of Cayastá.

Another of the jewels that hoards the church is the altar at present dedicated the Virgin of the Traffic and that primitively was the Calvary, is found To the left of the high altar, front al side room of the Virgin of Pompeii and is an altarpiece carved in wood and partly golden to fire, written down on two enormous lions, built in the 18th century by natives.

The pulpit, of cedar, built in the year 1864, during the priorato of the P. Fray Lucas Rodriguez Cotelo, and that was in the old church.

Two diademas silver that show off the Patriarchs Holy Sunday of Guzmán and San Francisco of you Grasp, donated by the family of Mrs Rose of Laocizqueta in 1792.

Two large batteries of marble for holy water , donated by Mr. Zenón Lassaga in the year 1904.

An old chair carved in wood and golden to fire, that is utilized like “headquarters” in the high altar.

An artistic reading stand carved in wood of cedar that is utilized like “ambón” and carried out by the woodcarver Mr. José Vicenti in the year 1916.

3 - Continuing an old Christian custom, the dead persons were buried in the churches. The temple of Holy Sunday receives in its vaults to patrician figures of ours passed historic. Besides the ones that already we mention but up, the remainders of Mr. Tomás are found Cullen and its wife, Mrs Josefa Eat of Cullen, near these is found that of Mr. Bartolomé Aldao, Rose Galisteo of Rodriguez, Martin Rodriguez Galisteo of Zapata. Another plate recalls to Urban of Iriondo, columnist of our provincial history of last century, who rests next to its wife Mrs Petrona Candioti. In other pantheons they have been buried numerous families as those of Zavalla , Cistern, Candioti, Gómez Cello, Troncoso, of the Captain of Cavalry Juan Manuel Roldán and Mrs Antonia López, parents of the Brigadier López. Other families as those of Funes, Baudin, Kings, of Roads, etc. In the Pantheon of the community, al foot of the high altar, are the remainders of the religious: Fray Mariano Loved, friend of Artigas and you represent you of Holy Faith in the Congress of the Stream of the China, Fray Victorino Piedrabuena , famous speaker, Fray Hermenegildo Argañaraz, Fray Antonio of the Cross Valley, Fray Félix Luque, Fray Pedro Antoñanza, Fray Hyacinth Gómez, Fray Lucas Rodriguez Cotelo, Fray Cornelius Etchave, Fray Sunday Market , all of destacadísima action in the convent santafesino.

4 - Special mention we should do with respect to the image of the Sweet name of Jesus , whose altar was remodeled after the prodigious fact of October 8, 1908 . the image was entrusted by the R.P. Fray Hyacinth Estévez al Valencian sculptor Was worth, and al arrived port of Buenos Aires March 13, 1906. according to express train the P. Estévez wanted an image that impressed to the santafesinos and removed them of its apathy. The sculptor, resident in Barcelona, implored the Virgin and by inspiration created the image as saw it, (conventual File). In the cheeks of the Boy God can be seen clearly the two tears that ran for her the morning of October 8, 1908 and that are found in the relicario donated by the lady Tomasa Iriondo of Cullen, in 1917.

SOME DATA ON THE CONVENT OF

HOLY SUNDAY OF HOLY FAITH

1°. The convent of Holy Sunday of S.FAITH, was based on Cayastá (Holy Faith the old woman)

In the year 1600.

2°. The Convent was transferred of Cayastá to the present one S. Faith in the year 1653.

3°. To - The last Church, that is the present one, begins to build in the year 1805.

B - Mons. Boneo blesses the high Altar of the new Church August 3, 1905.

C - October 3, 1905 is carried out the official inauguration of the present Church Our Lady of the Rosary.

4°. By Decree N. 388 of the Executive Power of the Nation Monument is declared Historic National al Convent of S. Sunday and Temple of N.S. of the Rosary. Already it is in force the Law 12.665 on Museums, Monuments and historic places promulgated in Buenos Aires October 8, 1940 , with the firm of CASTLE and of Guillermo Rothe. the Regulation of the law 12.665 is established for the decree N° 84.005

( With the same firms). they have special importance the articles 2° and 6 ° of the Law that say:

• Art.2°: The artistic and historic goods, property real estate monuments of the Nation, of the Provinces, of the city Halls or public institutions, they remain submitted by this law to the custody and conservation of the federal government, and in their case, in assembly with the respective authorities.

• Art.6°: The real estate understood in the list and official classification of the National Commission, they will be free of every load tax center.

5°. The city Hall of S. Faith places a special lighting to the Church and Convent of S. Sunday in the year 1986 (there can be some small difference dated). This lighting is basically the one that exists at present. In this same epoch the city Hall put takes it of light directly of the lighting I publish, exempting de facto of the collection to the proprietary company.  

 

PROYECTO DE RESOLUCIÓN

It facilitated Text RESOLUTION PROJECT by the signatories of the project. It should be keeps in mind that will only be able to be considered authentic the text published in the respective Parliamentary Procedure, published by the Press of the Congress of the Nation. Nº of Expedient 0042-D-2006 Parliamentary Procedure 1 The Camera of Representatives of the Nation RESOLVES: N the year 1982, through the Decree 388 of February 24, the National Executive Power declared as National Historic Monument al Convent of Holy Sunday and Temple Our Lady of the Rosary, including the atrium and the ornamental grille that encircles it. Example of ecclesiastical architecture but, besides setting of historic events, this monument comes crossing a series of degradations and falencias for lack of maintenance, what deserves the quick intervention of the national government, so that through a relevamiento of the deterioration a task of rescue be carried out and put in value of the building, so much in it concerning al Temple as al Convent. 

It is because of it, Mister President that request the accompaniment of my peers so that they take a quick intervention two agencies of the State: The National Commission of Monuments and Historic Places and the National Direction of Architecture to the effects to proceed to the restoration of the buildings. 

Bases Mister president: The Convent Holy Sunday is one of the oldest institutions of the city of Holy Faith, to which accompanied in all the vicissitudes of its history. Since the whiteness of our country was the chosen place to celebrate meetings that the men of the interior performed for summarize then the independence Argentina. Just as it indicates Fray of the Cross Saldaña Retamar, in the year 1600 remains installed in the old city of Holy Faith, the Convent of the Dominican Order. The same one was called with the dedication of San Pablo First Hermit and its church under the sponsorship of Our Lady of the Rosary. It transferred the city al present place, the Church and the Convent occupied the place that today form the corners of streets Three of February and 9 of July. The influence of the Dominican Order in the events of Holy Faith was notorious. In its cloisters the first schools functioned; its priests participated in the meetings of the city Halls and in the firm of the Treaties, as in the case of Fray Mariano Loved, friend of the Gral. Artigas. The Temple was like an old sanctuary of the old santafesinos and the 1811 is heard in its precinct one of the first allusive sermons to the historic date of May 25. In 1810 it had been lodged in its cells the Gral. Manuel Belgrano, that in motion al Paraguay with its expeditions members, preferred to be lodged in the Convent. It was in this same church where Mrs concurred Gregoria Pérez of Denis, the illustrious patrician one that donated her goods for the army of Belgrano. In the atrium of the Church they were performed in colonial epochs swears it of the new kings and the walk of the Real Banner. Then, in the time of the emancipation, there they evolved the Soft and the Dragons of the Country. Annex to the Church was in other epochs the cemetery, where many personalities illustrate they found the eternal rest. The historic chronicles, the memories of the epoch, the scholars as Cervera, they have left documented in their pages all the past of this Temple and Convent. The church suffered transformations through the time, since the primitive one until that of today. There was epoch, that of the last reconstruction of the temple in 1895, that was called to this church: the Vatican one of Holy Faith. 

The plant of the temple, that has the form of a latin american cross, occupies 75 meters of long for 12 of wide and its cruisers are of 9 for 5 meters. A single ship with predominance of an ionic architectural line is comprised of. It shows off two towers elegantísimas, of graceful cut, that excel with valentía on the buildings of the south neighborhood of the city; the dome, unique in its kind in Holy Faith, is elevated to 50 meters of height and serves of lighthouse or guide to the large ships that enter al port santafesino. The temple and convent where the General Belgrano prepared and organized its goes al Paraguay, encloses in its environments remainders illustrate. There they are the of the patrician one Gregoria Pérez of Denis, those of Francisco Antonio Candioti, call the Prince of the Gauchos and Governor of Holy Faith; the of the parents of the General Brigadier Dn. Estanislao López; the of the Governor of Cordoba, general Juan Baptist Busts; the of the Governor executed in the Pellet of Vergara, Mr. Sunday Cullen; the of the founder of the Museum of Art of Holy Faith, Mr. Martin Rodriguez Galisteo; those of Patrician and Tomás Cullen; those of Bartolomé Aldao, and so many other that figured in the history of Holy Faith. In the pantheon of the community, al foot of the altarpiece of the high altar, are the ashes of Fray Mariano Loved, signatory of the tried the Stream of the China; of Fray Victorian Piedrabiena; of Fray Hermenegildo Argañarás; of Fray Antonio of the Cross of the Valley; of Fray Augustine of Holy María Ferreiro; of Fray Cornelius Etchave and other that had special meaning in the religious life and. civil of the city.

Among the valuables that still keeps this church, they are distinguished: • A diadema silver of the patriarch Holy Sunday of irreproachable execution, donated by the family of Gives. Rose of Lacoizqueta in 1972.• A diadema silver of the patriarch San Francisco.• Four confessionals of columns salomónicas, worked by a slave from the convent at the beginning of the 18th century.• An altarpiece of wood (antiquity of the Calvary), done by the Portuguese in the 18th century.• An image to dress of Jesus of nazareth.• An image of wood (colonial) of the Virgin of the Traffic.• An image of wood of Image to dress of the patriarch San Francisco.• A cloth of the Assumption of María, of the Italian school in the epoch of its glory.• Two large batteries of marble for holy water, donated by Mr. Zenón Lassaga.• Valuable paintings as "The inhabitant of Cuzco" and "San Ignacio of Loyola". 

The interior of the temple decorated and stuccowork, shows off 20 magnificent medallions painted by Dn. Juan Cingolani, painter of the Vatican one, represent saints and pious of the Dominican Order whose images are not found in the altars of the church. The vitreaux of the dome, brought and donated by the Mrs. Rose Galisteo of Rodriguez, 8 on the whole, represent scenes of the life of our Holy Father Holy Sunday of Guzmán. The existing altars at present are the following: 1) the major, with the image of wood the Sma. Virgin of the Rosary and of the patriarchs Holy Sunday of Guzmán and San Francisco of you Grasp of wood carved and dressed of canvas and queue. In the upper part a picture with the image of San Pablo First Hermit, owner of the convent. 2) TO the right the altar of Jesus continues him of nazareth (old of the Calvary, of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and of the Virgin of the Pilar). It is the altarpiece but old that possesses the church and dates from the 18th century. 3) Altar of San José, of marble. Donadopor Mr. Apolinario Cistern and Mrs. in the year 1903. To both sides the images of Holy Teresita of the Boy Jesus and of San Ramón Unborn. In the niche of the center the Sma. Virgin of Guadalupe, patroness of the Arquidiócesis. 4) Altar of the Smo. Name of Jesus (reformed) -old of the Sacred Heart of Jesus- with the image of the Sweet Name of Jesus that October 8, 1908 cried. 5) Altar of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (previously of the Virgin of the Traffic) sponsored by Esmeralda Rodriguez of Zapata. 6) Altar of Holy Tomás of Aquino, sponsored by Gives. Josefa Eat of Cullen. 7) Altar of San Martin of Porres (previously of San Raimundo of Peñafort) sponsored with gifts of the town santafesino. 8) Altar of San Vicente Ferrer, donated by Gives. Tomasa Iriondo of Cullen. 9) Altar of Holy Rose of File (reformed and decorated), with the images of San Juan Macías and Holy Catalina of Sienna. 10) Altar SIDE ROOM of the Virgin of the Rosary of Pompeii, with the images of Holy Sunday of Guzmán and Holy Catalina of Sienna. To both sides of the altar there are two large cloths with the Virgin of the Rosary of Fátima and the Virgin of Lourdes (this donated by the French Community in 1944). The púlpíto of cedar was sent to build for the P. Fray Lucas Rodriguez Cotelo in 1871. The crossings of iron that crown the towers of the church have the following inscriptions: YEAR 1895 a; FACES ME FECIT (built with the charity of the faithful) the other. The altar of the Smo. Name of Jesus, reformed after the prodigious fact of October 8, 1908, was blessed by the General Teacher of the Order of the Preachers Fray Luis Theissling, June 16, 1918. It was the first Teacher of the Order that visited our country and in testimony of it planted the graceful pine that is conserved in the conventual garden. The relicario that keeps the tears of the Boy Jesus was donated by the Mrs. Tomasa Iriondo of Cullen in 1917. The image of the Boy Jesus was entrusted by the R.P. Fray Hyacinth estévez al Valencian sculptor Was worth and al arrived port of Buenos Aires March 13, 1906. According to express train the P. Estévez wanted an image that impressed to the santafesinos and removed them of its apathy. The sculptor, resident in Barcelona, implored the Virgin and by inspiration created the image as saw it. This assembly of elements. Large and architectural space volumes conform a hereditary complex of real was worth and is commitment of our generations to preserve and to accentuate its characteristics, like testimony I live of the history and as an example of noble architecture. For all it exposed, Mister President, I request the approval of the present project.