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Chapel of Saint Louis the Bishop
High altar
Reliquary of Saint Louis Bishop of Toulouse
He received the veneration of his parents,
the Monarchs of Naples.
Saint Louis was a nephew of the other Saint Louis, King of France and a son of the King Charles II of Naples and Sicily and Count of Provence. For seven years, he was a prisoner in Barcelona in place of his father. He resigned the throne and followed Saint Francis of Assisi. He was designated Bishop of Toulouse (France), Finally, he died in Marseilles when he was twenty-three years old (19th April 1297).When King Alfonso V of Aragon, the Magnanimous, sacked Marseilles in 1417, he brought the human remains of the Provence’s Patron Saint to Valencia, together with the chains which closed the Port of Marseille (they are currently in the Chapel of the Holy Chalice). His feast day is celebrated on 19th August.
Statues above the high altar
Allegories Work by José Cotanda
(1758 – 1802)
Allegories of the Chastity (with a turtledove) and the Humility (carrying a ball and with a crown at its feet).
Above the high altar
Stucco Work by José Cotanda
(1758-1802)
The glorification of Saint Louis, contemplated by a minor friar.
Left side
Saint Anthony the Great Oil by Vicente Lopez
(1772 – 1850)
Above
The Holy Family flee to Egypt
Joseph and Mary with the Child Jesus fled to Egypt to escape the persecution of the King Herod the Great (Matthew 2, 13-16).
These paintings were in the altar of the former Chapel of the ambulatory until its Gothic restoration.
Saint Anthony the Great, was a Christian monk in Egypt in the 3rd century, his feast day is on 17th January.
Right side
Our Lady of GuadalupeOil by the Mexican José de Ibarra.
Facsimile of the original from the year 1747.
Pendentives of the dome
Stuccoes Work by José Cotanda
(1758 – 1802)
Vow of chastity and penitent life of Saint Louis, the Annunciation and the Transfer of the Holy House of the Virgin to Loreto.
On the floor
Tomb
Tomb of the Archbishop Joaquín López Sicilia (1823 – 1835).
