Archaeologists Research Center of the San Francisco Ruins discovered what would be the basis of the ancient temple of that order, dating from late 1600 in the old part of the city. The archaeologists found the foundations of the ancient temple of the Franciscans dating from about 1700 and is located on the campus of Montecaseros and Chacabuco streets where currently the provincial Federico Moreno school is located. In excavations conducted from the first week of April to 22 May, we found a fairly old foundation wall that gives us the idea of what might have been the facade of the church of what was then the Church of Brothers of Charity. This research team is headed by the director of the Foundation Area, Horacio Chiavazza archaeologist and integrate with other professionals, archaeologists and Valeria Prieto Cristina Zorrilla. Cristina Prieto told The Sun On Line excavations were made on the grounds of the Church of Charity, currently occupied by Federico Moreno school, specifically at the corner of Montecaseros and Chacabuco city. He explained that correspond to an idea that we have several years of digging what was the original church of the Franciscans dating from the early 18th century The idea was to locate where the temple was and find human remains and materials that give us an idea of what had happened in that sector beyond what we had found in documentaries historical records and ancient planes roughly had located the church. He explained aspects of the research and interesting revelations of Mendoza history: We are working with a hypothesis that the excavation will have to reopen in summer and continue studying. We found a wall is quite old foundations that gives us the idea of what might have been the facade of the church of what was then the Church of the Brothers of Charity. After the Franciscans moved to what are now the ruins of San Francisco, at the Jesuit Church, the church of the Franciscan Brothers arrived Caridad.Indicó archaeologist to find this wall that we may be indicating the place of the facade and a very important aspect is that we are finding the skeletons inside and outside the church. Skeletons would be 17 centuries and 18 corresponding to the burials were made within and in the vicinity of the churches at the time. Keep in mind that this place was where the executed and buried the poor. We are finding a human sample of the most disadvantaged or who were less able to Mendoza then society people. Apart from the human skeletons found lots of historical information: a ceramic polished red which is quite characteristic of the early days of the colony and lots of bones and pottery that can parangonar villuco what they did they had known huarpes Spanish. We also find glass, metal, quite a number of important information and therefore we will reopen the excavation in summer. The research team said that working on editing a book for a collection of archaeological and documentary studies do what life was like in the early colony Mendoza in the 16th century and 17 from 1560 to 1650-1700.Por Meanwhile, the archaeologist Valeria Zorrilla, narrated that the place we excavated is known as the site of the Church of Charity but that after the earthquake of 1782 the history of that property begins in the early 18th century because that was the first Franciscan church. They were installed in 1687 and slowly began to build his temple. We know from documentary references that between 1,700 and 1,712 at end of building. Franciscan story unfolds in this space on that property. We also know that it was a temple of clay, basically. They were there until 1782, year of the Santa Rita earthquake that caused extensive damage to the city. The Franciscans then asked to award the Jesuit temple was already abandoned since 1767 because, as you know, had to leave America. In 1798 the Franciscans leave their church and the land on which they had been since before 1700 and installed in the church of the Jesuits. Meanwhile, the tempo goes Franciscan Brothers of Charity, which was a brotherhood that was dedicated to give burial to poor people and executed, as in colonial times was very important to be buried as Christians they were. The Brothers of Charity that temple occupied from 1798 to the 1861 earthquake, adding that the site of the Franciscans, besides the church, had a convent in the 19th century and ended up building a theater, theater on May 25, but that I was in the other corner. Currently Federico Moreno whole school is on two important landmarks of the old Mendoza.
