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These Christmas Masses, as they were called, were celebrated in the convents and churches, but eventually were moved to the haciendas, farms, and ranches, and finally to the neighborhoods.
San Juan also became the center for the Catholic Church’s evangelization of the New World; numerous churches, convents, and monasteries were established throughout the island to aid in this effort.
It was burned to the ground by Napoleon’s soldiers in 1808, abandoned in 1835 when all convents were sequestered by the state, and rebuilt in 1874.
Some Bevilacquas drank even less water than their wineloving neighbors ( Bevivinos may have been even more intemperate); the spiritual love of some Amantis was directed toward women other than their wives and the patronymic form D'Amanti given to the children of such unions; some Santillis and Salvos were notably profane; and some Carideos and Donadios were assumed to be dear to or given by God because no one else stepped forward to explain how they came to be left on the steps of convents or monasteries.
While much of it is not technically Gothic, it is a remarkable concentration of medieval palaces, convents, and churches.