The Church of the Company of Mary (Tudela)
By Ricardo Fernández Gracia
Mª Ignacia de Azlor in Tudela
There is documentary information about one of the altarpieces of the church, specifically that of the Virgin of Guadalupe, which informs us that it was made with the gifts of Sister Maria Ignacia Azlor, who made her novitiate in the house of Tudela, where she arrived on September 24, 1742 and remained there between 1742 and 1752, when she left for her homeland and founded the high school of Mexico, after having made her solemn profession.
This noble nun arrived in Tudela when the church was just inaugurated and at plenary session of the Executive Council time of its exorno. She paid for the altarpiece of the patron saint of Mexico, collaborated with 600 ducats for the site of the orchard and donated a rich French dress to make a gown that was worn for the first time on the day of her profession. His gifts also reached the chapter of the collegiate, as sample the donation of 800 reals for the gift of St. Anne in 1748, "showing gratitude for having assisted the chapter at his profession and has expressed the said Mr. Treasurer that the said amount should serve for the gold cloth robe that in continuation of the one that had begun ...... that should serve in the festivities of Our Patron Saint Anne".
In Mexico she founded the house of the order in the capital of the viceroyalty and is considered as the introducer of the methods of teaching for the Education of girls in those lands, making possible an authentic revolution in pedagogy in those lands.
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