Chapel of Our Lady of Chiquinquirá
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The Chapel of Our Lady of Chiquinquirá is a temple of Catholic worship, dedicated to the Virgin Mary under the title of Our Lady of Chiquinquirá. It is located in the eastern side of the main square of La Ceja, Colombia, and belongs to the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Diocese of Sonsón-Rionegro.
The chapel contains the remains of some prominent Colombian people, such as the poet Gregorio Gutiérrez González and his wife Julia de Isaza, former President Juan de Dios Aranzazu, the first president of Colombia from Antioquia, and political and business leader José María Bernal.
The building has a colonial style, with a singular rectangular nave. It houses a collection of paintings of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, among which include works by the Colombian master Gregorio Vasquez de Arce y Ceballos. For that reason, in 1968, Monsignor Alfonso Uribe Jaramillo, bishop of Sonsón-Rionegro, declared the church a "Temple Museum of Religious Art". On November 2, 1995, the national government also declared it a national monument of Colombia.
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