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We welcome you all to this Museum of Sacred Art! https://museobenedictinasantealtares.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Welcome.mp3 It’s a museum that focuses on history – but it’s not just about the past. Many of the works you’ll find here will share their meaning, their uses and their characters to  engage you in…

RETURN https://museobenedictinasantealtares.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Welcome.mp3   It’s a museum that focuses on history – but it’s not just about the past. Many of the works you’ll find here will share their meaning, their uses and their characters to engage you in a conversation that’s relevant today. They are not…

RETURN Pause here for a moment, visitor! Perhaps you’re not especially impressed by my appearance, a marble slab without great bas-reliefs … But I have a very long history, and the origins of the city of Santiago were molded around me. I was dug…

RETURN There are many characters in this Gospel scene. Perhaps you don’t know this, but when most people were illiterate and couldn’t read the Sacred Scriptures, paintings and sculptures were created precisely to put in front of the eyes of the faithful the stories they…

RETURN “They will look upon him whom they have pierced” (John 19:37) On the Cross, you see me serene, just as the artist saw me who sculpted this image in the 13 th century. He had a prayer on his lips and in his heart…

RETURN All of us are copies – that is, we are not the original parchment papers that are safeguarded in the archives kept by the Benedictine nuns of this community. But we’re nearly identical copies of them. Our mission is to preserve and display all…

RETURN I doubt that you will identify me as a pelican at first sight – I’m afraid that whoever chiseled me had never seen one and I look more like an eagle … But what’s certain is that my figure wants to evoke the loving…