Monument to San Vicente Ferrer

With the same history as that of the monument to San Vicente Mártir, that of San Vicente Ferrer, in the Plaza de Tetuán -before Santo Domingo- and in front of the old convent of that name, current headquarters of the Captaincy General of the III Military Region, takes advantage of the strong sculpture of the Thaumaturgo created for the door of San Vicente (martyr) placed at the end of the eighteenth century (by agreement of the council of August 17, 1677), for the part that looked outside the city walls, being the object of veneration and attributing special protection in times of pest and other citizen calamities. When the door was demolished, it went to the municipal warehouses and then to the courtyard of the Museum and School of Fine Arts in El Carmen, until on April 26 (the Saint’s Day) of 1960 the monument was solemnly inaugurated, after the restoration and reintegration of the lost or deteriorated parts, by the sculptor Ernesto López, of the figure attributed to Ignasi Vergara, without great security. At his feet, he has the mitre which he renounced out of humility, and a child who holds the Bible to him, the basis of his preachings; In attitude he was efficated.

The location could not be more suitable, since to the spacious beauty of the square, joins the immediacy of who was his Dominican convent, and so many memories he keeps of him, and his own birthplace, a few meters away, in the street of the Mar corner to that of the Pouet de San Vicente. With this monument, the erection is due, like that of others, to Mayor Rincón de Arellano, Valencia pays a debt, perhaps unpayable, with the most illustrious of his children. Thus, on the pedestal an inscription reads: “Valencia grateful for the protection given to the city by Saint Vincent Ferrer in year MDCLXXVII”.

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