Ruins of St. Paul is "Eight Macao", located in the Fortress Hill, left the Provisional Macao Museum and the Fort spots, even under 68 stone, towering appears to be spectacular.
Ruins of St. Paul is the Mother of God Church (the Church of St. Paul's) the anterior site.
St. Paul's church is St. Paul's school . The Catholic Jesuits as early as 1565 in St. Anthony's Church will be the first side to build homes on the hill and then in the third to build new homes, and attached to the church and to teach the rationale for teaching purposes of the school. To 1594, the school upgraded to college (the University at the time), the Far East to become one of the earliest Western-style university, which is well-known St. Paul's College.
St. Paul's School and the adjoining St. Paul's Church, founded in 1580, 1595 and 1601 in two of the fire, the church burned. In 1602 to start the third renewal, now there at the time of St. Paul on the left side of the foundation . The whole building up to the years 1637-1640 was completed in full; see the current church is the anterior part of the completion of the final. In 1835, destroyed in a fire in the St. Paul's Church Institute and its subsidiary, the only church left anterior positive, as well as most of the foundation stone of the church before. Since then, After this has become the world-famous St. Paul's church in ruins.
At the rear of the church ruins in 1837 was used as a burial tomb of the priest, to date in 1854.
From 1990 to 1996, St. Paul's Church of the Macao government to carry out archaeological sites, repair and re-use project Portugal by the architects responsible for the planning and design, a number of archaeologists, historians and museum experts to work at a cost of more than 20,000,000 yuan, 5-year archeology, investigation and to create and build a museum in 1996 Completed in October, the Ruins of St. Paul to be so well-preserved.
Building description :
Ruins of St. Paul's granite building by building, 23 meters wide and 25.5 meters high, can be divided into five levels, starting from the third floor and gradually up points to close at the top is as wide a base of 8.5 m Yamahana triangle, the entire wall is a Baroque-style, but some of the design or sculpture, have obvious East Color, such as Chinese or Japanese symbol of the traditional round chrysanthemum pattern, and so on, the Chinese and western walls of the Shek Pik in the Catholic church in the world is unique.
The first floor of St. Paul, that the entrance level, a total of three imported Ai-10 and ANC support column and wall decorations, doors on both sides of the 3 2 each side of the side door, a small door on the door of Jesus are simple words of IHS relief patterns on the main entrance was written "MATER DEI", makes it clear that the church is dedicated to the Virgin; the second layer is the first level of the corresponding extension of the wall by 10 Collins column and the three windows, fins, there are 7 floating flower Rose Decoration, the side window in the middle between two columns decorated with palm trees Lam, the side-hole symmetry between both sides of the column with niche, dedicated to the four Catholic saints; the decorated in the third layer is a layer of rich, and began to close, the central wall set up There's a deep arched niche, the memorial tablets of Notre Dame, each side 3 Angels relief, a total of the Central Chi Bi Zhu mixed, with both sides of the sharp side in place of La Bi Zhu, the following is a continuation of the two-cylinder, the columns are between the bas-relief decoration on the left is a smart tree and a seven pterosaur, the last one of Notre Dame, Chinese side has "Our Lady of the leading step", while the right side of the symmetrical position is the spirit of Stephen and a Western-style sailing, there are Our Lady Star. In the column is an outside group was Huzhuang buttress of the right is a skeleton and the Chinese characters of "letting things take their own study of the deceased crime"; on the left is the devil of a relief, the Chinese are "ghost is evil attractive", the outermost layer On the walls of the two by the two sides of the dome with a pointed column, and the side of the wall, there is a Chinese lion dance form of exorbitant Lions; water for use in the fourth tier is a holy shrines of Jesus, the Good Friday there on both sides of the instruments of torture of relief, out of the 4 mixed-Bi Zhu, inter-column decorated with bas-relief angels, there are columns on both sides of the arc Gable. Fifth floor is a triangle Yamahana, a copper dove in the middle, with the top of the cross.
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