Church of Peace

Antecedent to that of San Juan Evangelista or Lateran, one of the collations founded by the Catholic Monarchs after the Castilian conquest, which was located in the Plaza del Estudio (today Plaza del Campillo) because the School of Latinity established by Fernando was installed there. the Catholic through a bachelor of Latin grammar. This church was moved in the middle of the 16th century to the place where the Church of Peace is located today, receiving at that time the name of Vera Cruz or Sangre de Cristo. Only the façade remains of the original church, the rest of the building is from the 18th or current century. The temple has a single nave and several altars from the end of the 18th century. The entire church appears profusely decorated with plasterboard. The altar is in the Churrigueresque style, with great exuberance in its decoration, with stipes, mirrors, cut-out plates and rockeries, in it an artistic dressing room is opened where the Virgen de la Paz, Patroness of Ronda, is a 15th century dress image. , which carries in its arm an 18th century Child Jesus, at its feet it has an embossed silver urn from the 19th century, with the remains of Blessed Fray Diego José de Cádiz, of which there is a monument at the entrance of the church. The façade is articulated with a stone doorway, in which a semicircular arch framed by alfiz opens and the rest of masonry with sgraffito decoration of rosettes and stars. It is finished off with a belfry on the left side, with semicircular arches folded between pilasters and decoration of pinjantes on the keystone. It has a polychrome carving of a Crucified, the Christ of the Blood, by Duque Cornejo, from the 18th century, it is the most important sculpture preserved in the city. In an altarpiece, with a holy wooden scale, is the ECCE Homo, a full-carved processional image from the 18th century, which is dressed with a cloak. As for painting, we must mention the 17th century oil on canvas of San Miguel; and from the 18th, the themes of “The Adoration of the Shepherds” and “The Imposition of the chasuble of San Ildefonso”.