Just minutes from the Old San Juan Port, one of the most beautiful Sculpture shown built entirely in Bronze by Jose Buscaglia Guillermety. A renowned Puerto Rican Artist and educator who's vision and purpose allowed him to create a splendid masterpiece. These collections of various sculptures is a preamble on the early beginning of History in Puerto Rico. The importance on religion and its fundamental role as it played out throughout the Americas. The Spanish Settlers arrived on November 19th, 1493. Christobal Columbus arrived and colonized the island baptizing the name San Juan Bautista. The City name of San Juan is derived from Saint John the Baptist.
La Fuente De La Herencia, clearly is a depiction that gives us insight on religion, and how it fundamentally changed the lives of aboriginal settler who first arrived in Puerto Rico.
The religious personalities shown in the statue, the Franciscan and Dominican friars, An early epoch were many chapels and sanctuaries were built as means to empower not just religion, but to convert and protect the lives of those who had carried a belief far different from the principle foundation of Christianity.
Puerto Rico officially became the first island were members of both congregations, planted a movement of evangelizing the island known today as San Juan Bautista.
The town of Aguada was the initial landing of Christobal Columbus on the second voyager on November 19th, 1493. Today the town is known for having baptized the first monastery "La Ermita del Espinar de Aguada"also known as "La Cuidad del Descubrimiento".
The photo above shows 4 distinct sculptures, the far left is a depiction shown of a friar posing with his hands raised up holding the wine and bread, an act of consecration within the cristian faith.
The Statue below showis a Franciscan friar anchoring the cross, it represnts the beginnings of the introduction of the cristian faith in Puerto Rico.
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