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Key information
Chapel of Christ of the Good Death
Centre of the altarpiece
Christ crucified Work attributed to Alonso Cano or Juan Muñoz.
Sculpture of polychrome wood. Baroque Castilian style from the 17th century.
It comes from the confiscation of the Augustinian monastery of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.
Background of the altarpiece
Calvary Panel painting
Vicente Macip
(16th century)
Calvary, portraying saint Mary, Mother of Jesus and Saint John, the loved disciple, beside the cross (John 19, 25-26).
Mannerist renaissance style.
Right wall
Christ tied to the column Oil on canvas,
Unknown artist
(17th century)
Left wall
The Good Thief Oil on table,
work by Miguel Esteve
(16th century)
It presided over this chapel from 1745 to 1916.
Saint Luke (23,42-43)
According to the Gospel of Saint Luke (23, 42-43), invoked Jesus from the cross in the Calvary:
Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
and Jesus answered him:
Verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with me in paradise.
In the background of the painting, we can find the description of the legend of the Penitent Thief – Saint Dismas – according to the aprocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus: When the Holy Family fled to Egypt, he defended them from the other thieves and protected them. After thirty years, he found Jesus Christ again, crucified beside him.
Once this painting was restored, it was returned to this chapel on 4th April 2000.
Saint John 19:25-27
According to the Gospel of Saint John 19:25-27
Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her.
Woman, here is your son.
Then, he said to the disciple:
Here is your mother.
From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.
On the walls of the chapel
Sepulchral urn
Sepulchre of the knight Sir Jacme (James) Castellar, buried here in 1431. Coats of arms with the castle, emblem of the Castellar family.
Our lady of Lourdes Polycromy wood, unknown artist,
(20th century)
