CHURCH OF THE HOLY SACRAMENT – Ornamentation

The gothic spirit invades the interior of this temple. From the start, the wood doors recreate this ambience with its pointed decorations in the same wood and accompanied by small Solomonic columns that end in pointed arches.

The walls of the church’s nave are divided into panels, separated by triple compound columns attached to the wall. The low wall zone is decorated with a pastel tone in the range of yellows. It is separated in a horizontal manner by a carved molding shaped in pointed lobed arches that give way to the rest of the wall painted with flower motifs of fleur de Lys and spots. Through this zone of the wall, small altarpieces can be observed with images of the Stations of the Cross and the series of beautiful colored stained glass windows dedicated to the different Saints. Thus looking at the altar, in the left wall there are:

Saint Clara: She is the first and only woman to write a religious way of life rule for women.
Saint Agustin: Father and Doctor of the Catholic Church. He was the top thinker of Christianity of the first millennium.

Saint Ana: Mother of the Virgin Mary. She is the patron saint of working women and miners.
On the right wall the following can be seen:

Saint Luis Gonzaga: Young Jesuit who left his life in the high social spheres of this time and the inheritance of a noble title to dedicate his life to the religious service. He is the patron saint of young people.

Saint Rosa de Lima: First Saint of America, patron Saint of the New World, police institutions and armed forces.

The Good Shepherd: Biblical allegory that represents God taking care, protecting and saving his people.
“Like a shepherd he watches over his herd […] and thus likewise I will watch over my sheep […] the lost sheep, I will search for.” Ez 34:12-16

All of them are framed by columns supported by beautiful golden winged cherubs and crowned by pointed arches. Over the compound triple columns rests the beautiful tetra-partite ogive vaulted ceiling. The ribbings that start from the capitals of these columns run through the vault until reaching the beautifully decorated underpinning. All ornamented with sacred iconography, decorative borders and garlands in golden paint.

The altar continues to have the same ornamental line. It has a beautiful marble structure to house the Holy Sacrament and is completely decorated with gothic style elements, such as the pointed and lobed arches and a rather high pinnacle, exalting the search for heights as was set forth by the style. Its dome is ribbed and its borders are framed with gold pain as well as in the apse, behind the altar, it is crowned with a stained glass window with a beautiful representation of the Crucifixion scene: to the left the figure of the Virgin Mary can be appreciated, to the right of Saint Juan. The four parts of the stained glass window are separated in the form of the Cross of Christ. In the inferior part of the stained glass window that matches the base of the cross, a skull can be seen alluding to the place where Christ was crucified: the Golgotha Hill (of the cranium or skull). Just like the remainder of the decoration, it is crowned in pointed arches. The two stained glass windows form among them a central cross, which divides them. On both sides, in the corner angular walls, there is a niche that contains and angelical figure held by the heads of cherubs and surrounded by two columns that hold an awning arch.