More to discover at Santa Catalina Conve

I next visited the Profundis Room.  Here, there is a catafalque used to mourn and portraits of all the nuns who died in the convent.  One of the paintings is of Catalina de San José y Barreda.  It is said that when she died, IHS, Christ's monogram, formed on her forehead with her veins!

I walked down Calle Malaga, the first of the citadel's six streets, all of which are named after Spanish cities.  Here, there is the Zurbaran Room, a small museum containing the objects, paintings, and religious works of  the nuns.

Calle Cordoba is where the convent's current resident nuns live in seclusion.Read more