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I said, I said time and again appears: place we turn to look carefully at our Mexico travel, either through the route of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro and Route Hidalgo or the route that is, we encounter a rich and abundant history. This time with something that someone aptly called "the life, death and resurrection of the Church of St. Augustine in Zacatecas.

In the raid that the order of St. Augustine made to the northern New Spain, was is the northernmost foundation that they did (as far as I have heartily understood). The arrival of the Augustinians to the Zacatecas was between the years 1575 and 1576.

The Augustinians have been highlighted as far as architecture is concerned, exceptional in having erected temples, almost since they arrived in Mexico or in any case, since the Franciscans demarcate territories , Dominicans and Augustinians evangelizarían, as good examples could mention two: its magnificent church and convent at Salamanca and Yuriria, both populations of the current state of Guanajuato.

In 1613 construction began on the monastery in the Zacatecas , date almost coincides with the founding of its enclosure in Salamanca, indeed. (I much mention of Salamanca, because I am a native from there. Commentary at the bottom). The blessing of the temple was given on June 2, 1782, fair-century baroque splendor throughout New Spain, the exception would not be this temple.

The facade is completely lost, surviving only a drawing you made of it and they say, those who have seen, was splendid. What we now see is a bare church, not just naked, but fully skinned whatever its monumental facade. Came the fateful years of the Reformation, unfortunate for the Catholic Church, as it was when he Confiscation Act, therefore, the clergy and religious were stripped of all property they had and thrown out of the convent, the church of San Agustín de Zacatecas was abandoned.

Thanks to new technologies and more consistent government expenditure in Zacatecas was created through the light, the virtual resurrection of what was the Augustinian church facade, this happens every night the lights of the show, among other things has this vision of what were the glory days of the temple.

remember that I told you about stealing my camera, why do not present a picture of me in that light show, but I dare to use one of Mr. Antonio Ambriz Avendaño, a who from now let me thank you for it. What we see in the picture now is the back of the temple.

Digging in the disaster that led to the arts of Mexico as a result of the confiscation leads us to see cases like this, where the temple was used for all types of human activity, based on the holy , for which it was created, ending at the non holy, it was his sad fate.

Cantina, cellar, brothel, neighborhood pool, everything, almost everything is settled there, the most regrettable is known about the "second devastation" that occurred in Mexico. We know that the English settlers in the Great Tenochtitlan was dedicated to destroying all of the great temples, but, worse, were the consequences of the Reformation, where the Mexicans now, engaged to destroy all the colonial vestiges.

read with surprise and indignation in one of the links in this Article I share, that says the master Francisco de la Maza than 100 thousand altars built during the colonial period survive only 20 thousand unfortunate loss for all those who recreate in these forests baroque embellishment and endless lines almost constantly moving.

Today the temple, rather, the shell of the temple has been recovered, restored and used as a cultural center, a good example from which many places in Mexico can get a good idea to know that do with that magnificent building that claims to be recovered. I understand that this will involve enormous costs in times of famine which we live.

This time I let a lot of links for you to soak deeper into the issue, both from within the Augustinian church, as in his "life, death and resurrection of a legend of love and your lighting project.

Undoubtedly San Agustin of Zacatecas, is one of the sites to which we must give some time on your visit to that city. Indeed, among the photos you see, is the flatness of the façade, where they make projections and elaborate altarpiece, this is the front side, the only one to survive the barbarous revolutionary pre-and post-reformatory.