miércoles, 27 de mayo de 2015

Chapel of Saint Valero and Punt Gantxo House

Modernist building designed by the architect Manuel Peris Ferrando, composed of ground floor and four upper floors. Topped by a pointed gable which is the year of construction: 1906 and the initials A and S intertwined. The building's facade has sgraffito decoration and pilasters that mimic logs. It shows a different balconies with stone sills and other modernist style made in wrought iron.

On the ground floor is located the famous Chapel of Saint Valero built in 1719 by order of Jaime Servera canon. The chapel was built on the spot where tradition stood the prison where this saint was incarcerated at the beginning of  the 4th century, pursued in the last and perhaps most bloody persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire, the persecution of Diocletian (also called "Great Persecution") and imprisoned in the same process as Saint Vicent Martyr.


The Chapel of Saint Valero opens to the outside through a cover of baroque style lintel with Tuscan pilasters. On the doorpost an oculus and above this a niche with an image of Saint Valero made by the Valencian sculptor Rafael Orellana in the late twentieth century. Tops set a triangular pediment. On the cover is an inscription: 1719. The chapel was restored in 1907, coinciding with the construction of the Punt Gantxo House.


Inside the chapel is a small room with an altar and a simple altarpiece dedicated to Saint Valero. Complete set any archaeological item with Latin inscriptions indeterminate period. The altar and the altarpiece disappeared come from Dominican convent of Saint Catalina de Siena and were installed in 1970. In one of the archaeological stones an inscription that says: "Qvasi thvs in igne vicentivs odore svae sanctitatis effvdit", which roughly translates: As the smell of incense in the fire, Vicente smells Holiness. The second ashlar has the inscription: "Hic fvit Valerivs in vincvlis circa annvm cccvi domini" which roughly translates as: In this prison Valero was the year of the Lord 306.

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