Is a minor church of the Roman Catholic religion, it is at the top of Monserrate hill, east of Bogotá, which is dedicated under the patronage of the Fallen Lord of Monserrate. The church is a pilgrimage shrine that is part of the Archdiocese of Bogotá.
The construction of the first chapel was authorized by Juan de Borja in 1640 the bachelor, Don Pedro Solis, who finished in 1657, initially under the patronage of the Black Virgin of Montserrat and soon replaced by the image of "Santo Cristo dropped to whips and nailed to the cross ", by Pedro de Lugo Albarracín master carved in wood and some pieces of lead and silver. This building had a chapel and an adjoining convent where recollect monks of St. Augustine lived until 1685, when they were replaced by the Cabinet of Madrid, by Candelario father
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