The Church and Convent-Hospital of Corpus Christi in Toledo. Hospitaller Order of St. John of God. Composition and distribution. Early years of his activity (1596-1604). Apostolic Visitation of 1602. Additional conditions imposed on the Community by the

Abstract

Abstract. Once the delivery by Doña Leonor de Mendoza to the Brothers of the Habit of Juan de Dios of the goods, deeds and rights of the endowment of their foundation, on August 3 of that year of 1596, the said religious constituted the Community and adapted the buildings received to serve as a Convent and as a Hospital.  then initiating both activities, and opening a Hostelry in one of its dependencies, in addition to continuing with the public worship of the Church. In this work we address the composition and distribution of both parts, describing how what was initially a Chapel and a set of two or three main houses and some secondary annexes were formed in a Hospital, with its Hostelry, and a Convent with its Church, all with its good and complete endowment, especially the Church. We also present the hospitaller activity and conventual life, and we also focus on the first Apostolic Visitation to the new Hospital-Convent carried out by the Archbishopric of the Toledo, to whom he was subject, which turned out to be transcendental for the observance of the Constitutions of the Institution by the young Community, since it seems that there was a certain relaxation in it.