Capilla+de+San+Isidro(English)

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=1.Location of the Capilla de San Isidro.=

La Capilla San Isidro's is placed in nº1 of Plaza de San Andres (Madrid) is a catholic temple placed in a central neighborhood that of the Latin person and in turn one of the most ancient of Madrid.



=2.Construction=

After San Isidro's coronizacion in 1622, on having seen the modesty of the temple where his(her,your) remains were deposited, I shuffle the possibility of constructing a new temple or to lean a chapel in order that it(she) was worthy of the boss of madrid. In 1642 there was summoned a new contest, to which several appeared of the most out-standing architects of the Court, being chosen the traces contributed by Pedro de la Torre. For economic problems in 1650 you upset habia outpost of the cimientos of the chapel. In 1657 I restart the work, dealing with the direcciónJosé of Villareal, disciple of Gómez of Default, who could take advantage of some ideas of the primitive(original) project of his(her,your) teacher, and it was continued up to his(her,your) completion in 1669 by Juan de Lobera and Sebastia'n Herrera.

=3.In order that it was done.=

San Isidro's Chapel was created to be worthy of the Boss of Madrid and to deposit San Isidro's remains and that the people puediera to be going to say, to adore him him. San Yokel is the boss of Madrid and is the saint who many(many people) come to ask him(her) that it rains is known also as the boss of the peasants.

=4. Who ordered it to be built?=  There is not known very well the one who I send her to construct but módificoporque it was remaining poor for the remains that he was guarding and he was Juan Gómez of Default in March, 1639 and Pedro de la Torre in 1642, and in 1643 it puts on the first stone with a great holiday where there was band of music and a great multitude of people. But the works little would advance and it was an April 12, 1657, when the architect Jose de Villarreal, major teacher of the royal works, took charge of the direction of the works, reforming Pedro de la Torre's traces.There fell down the houses of don Fadrique Enríquez and of the duke of Béjar, in San Andrés's Plaza and part of the wall of where extrajerón the stone necessary for the work. They were brought mármoles of Talavera and Cehegín's jaspers, the coating and working was begun of mármoles by Juan de Lobera, who also did the doors with columns of entry to the temple. They put on the slates in the covers and Simón of Vega took charge of the encamonado of the dome with windows and lantern, which on the following year was finished, at the same time as Juan de Lobera was taking charge of the project to the death of his teacher Villarreal in 1662. But still seven years would stay until the relics of the saint could remove to the Chapel, since it was necessary to embellish the whole interior. The Chapel acquired a magnificence

=5.Built description.=

His two towers shelter four bells each one, and the two that give to the street are framed by a few opened gratings which protection escapes from us, since the extent between bars allows the step of a possible desinterested clapper and he would not avoid the fall of a bell to the street either. Probably there exists an ancient norm that was forcing, in all the towers of the villa of Madrid, to put gratings in the windows of the street, since the practical totality of historical temples they have them. media type="youtube" key="8U_fSpeuwLo" height="385" width="640" =6.His utilization nowadays.= Nowadays it is in use as church where they give themselves masses and also it is a place where the people are going to say the boss of Madrid where estan deposited his body and the people go to say him, to ask for miracles him.

=**7.Leyend,**= San Isidro is the boss of Madrid. It is said that it was born in 1082 and died in 1172. He was a parishioner in San Andrés's church. San Yokel was a farmer and a serf of a family of the nobility, the family of The Vargas Miracles assumed to him: A child fell to a well and miraculously it raised the water of the well and the child could go out for his own foot. Otro milagro fue que San Isidro iba por el campo y tenía sed, dió un golpe en el suelo y salió un manantial y de este salió agua y la gente bebía porque pensaban que tenía dotes milagroas .A San Isidro se le enterró en un cementerio de pobres ya que él era labrador, la gente empezó a ir a rezar a su tumba. Se formaban peregrinaciones y con el tiempo decidieron saber si era santo. Levantaron la tumba y el cuerpo estaba intacto. Lo pusieron en el altar mayor de la iglesia de San Andrés para que la gente lo venerara. In the 17th century the Church confirms that San Isidro is holy, and already it was not alone a popular devotion. The major square newly finished his remodeling [to finish in house]. One decided about the same San Andrés's church to do a chapel and they put San Isidro's body, called today San Isidro's Chapel Labrador. The union of the silversmiths of Madrid was given by them to him an urn of silver and put him until in the 18th century they moved his body.