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Santa Clara de Cervera

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Authorship: Araceli Rosillo-Luque

Name: Santa Clara de Cervera
Other names: Les Onze Mil Verges
Chronological data: 1344

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Clarisses
De 1350 a 1350
De 1375 a 1545

Related Communities

Santa Caterina de Cervera

History of the Community

Since 1245 Cervera had a convent of Franciscan Friars, which is already documented in 1235. More than a century afterwards, we found Poor Clares nuns establised in the chapel of the Once Mil Virgenes, in the village northeast area, as we can read in a chapter dated october 1344, which the nuns remain under the protection of king Pere el Cerimoniós.

The way to the final nuns establishment was far to finish and also was marked the by several conflicts between the sorores, the bishop's agenda, municipal authorities and a community lepers of Cervera. In June 1328 Alfons El Benigne ordened to the Friars Minor attorney procurator, Francisco Na Burguesa, to sale at public auction the leperps properties, and to buy with the benefit the estate where will be built the monastery of Santa Clara. In august 23 of the same year, it was solemnly establish an concord agreement among the nuns representatives and the lepers. A few months after taht, though, the king ordered the restitution of the entire properties to the lepers, so the project for the creation of a Poor Clare monstery was paralized. The nuns community went on thankfully to private donations. Among them, it is of special relevance such made by Domingo Aguilar and his wife Guillerma, who founded a chapel dedicated to the Once Mil Virgenes in 1329, which was at the disposal of nuns in 1334.