Capilla de la Caridad del Hospital Maciel, Montevideo

The Charity Chapel (Spanish: Capilla de la Caridad), better known as Capilla del Hospital Maciel, is a Roman Catholic chapel in Montevideo, Uruguay.[1]

Capilla de la Caridad
Religion
AffiliationRoman Catholic
Ecclesiastical or organizational statusHospital chapel
Year consecrated1807
Location
LocationMontevideo,  Uruguay
Architecture
StyleNeo-Classicism

Overview

Run by the Sisters Hospitaller of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, it is part of the Maciel Hospital.[2]

The images venerated are: Our Lady of Mercy (main altar), Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Our Lady of the Rosary, Our Lady of Sorrows, Christ, Saint Anthony, Saint Francis of Paola, and Saint Eligius (patron saint of the metalworkers, who donated the image). The baptismal fonts are made of giant tridacna valves.[3]

In 1825 the Chapel was visited by Count Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, the future Pope Pius IX.[3]

Bibliography
  • Guía Arquitectónica y Urbanística de Montevideo. 3rd Edition. Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo, 2008, ISBN 978-9974-60026-3, p. 51, 132.

References
  1. "Capilla de la Caridad". Archdiocese of Montevideo. Retrieved 31 March 2013. (in Spanish)
  2. "Institutes of consecrated life in Uruguay". Archdiocese of Montevideo. Retrieved 31 March 2013. (in Spanish)
  3. "Research on the Charity Chapel" (PDF). SMU. Retrieved 7 May 2013. (in Spanish)

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