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Capilla de la Caridad del Hospital Maciel, Montevideo

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Location
  
Montevideo,  Uruguay

Ecclesiastical or organizational status
  
Hospital chapel

Architectural style
  
Neoclassicism

Affiliation
  
Roman Catholic

Phone
  
+598 2916 1386

Year consecrated
  
1807

Capilla de la Caridad del Hospital Maciel, Montevideo

Address
  
Francisco Maciel, 11000 Montevideo, Uruguay

Similar
  
Nuestra Señora de Lourdes y, San Antonio y Santa Cla, Parroquia San Francisco, Cathedral of The Most Holy Trini, Nuestra Señora del Carmen

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

Overview

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

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.

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

References

Capilla de la Caridad del Hospital Maciel, Montevideo Wikipedia