http://bo.teeks99.com/2011/01/back-on-top/ Adventures in Boliva Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:30:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 http://bo.teeks99.com/2011/01/back-on-top/#comment-71 Laura Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:26:33 +0000 http://bo.teeks99.com/?p=124#comment-71 Great call John! Now that I think about it, it was called Iglesia las Mercedes but I didn’t know what that meant. It was in pretty bad repair and didn’t have any informational signs or anything, so thanks for that background. And interestingly, there was a also San Francisco Xavier Iglesia in town that had a similar design.

]]> http://bo.teeks99.com/2011/01/back-on-top/#comment-70 John Donaghy Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:04:27 +0000 http://bo.teeks99.com/?p=124#comment-70 Laura,
My guess is that the church was a church of the Mercedarians, since the statue of Mary and of two of the saints on the second level look, from a distance, like the statues in some Mercedarian churches here in Honduras. The Mercedarians were first established to ransom slaves from the Muslims in and around Spain but were among the orders that came to the Americas.
I could be wrong because it also looks like the saint on the bottom left is the Jesuit Francisco Javier.
Keep well.

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