The Alhambra and the Kremlin: The South and the North of EuropePrime, Samuel Irenæus
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The Alhambra and the Kremlin: The South and the North of Europe
Prime, Samuel Irenæus
Europe -- Description and travel
SEVILLE.
DON MIGUEL DE MANARA, a Spanish rake, one of many like the Don Juan who
stands as type of his race, having spent his life in the way rakes love
to live, undertook to be religious in his later years. He had sowed his
wild oats, and never got much of a crop, and now that death was likely
to call for him soon, he thought to get ready for his coming by making
over to some pious uses what he had not spent upon his lusts. According
to the theory of that church which takes care of all Spanish souls, he
made a sure thing of it by founding a hospital, to which was given the
name of “LA CARIDAD.” A brotherhood, whose special vocation was to
minister to persons sentenced to death, and to bury their bodies, took
charge of it. It is famous far beyond Seville and Spain. Its patients
are tended by young men of good families in the city, who minister by
turns to the sick and dying brought to this CHARITY. Perhaps some of the
young gentlemen nurses, like the founder, have an eye to a compromise of
their own infirmities, by giving attention to these miserably sick poor.
But the fame of the hospital is so great because it has within its walls
some of the noblest paintings in the world!
The building stands in an obscure part of the town, and we had a long
search to find it, Antanazio, our guide, being quite unused to take his
travellers to hospitals and out-of-the-way churches, as theatres and
bull-fights and fandangoes among the gypsies are much more attractive.
But we found it; an old woman janitor let us in, and led us to the
chapel where the art-treasures are to be seen.
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