Journey To the Sierra de Horna Chullos In Los Angeles
Much has been written about the history and myths of the monastery of Los Angeles, located in the Sierra de Hornachuelos, since it was founded in 1490 by the Earl of Belalcázar1 II, which, in their religious life was Fray Juan de la Puebla. Over time, his influence and fame extended to more areas, where even the head of the Franciscan Province of Los Angeles.
At the time of the founding of the monastery, were discovered the New Indies, with the Franciscan Order of the more contributions missionaries sailed to the New World. Already in the first voyage of Christopher Columbus, he was accompanied by two lay brothers of the order. A total of 8,441 Franciscans marched in Spanish Colonial America, which represented 55.91% of the total of 15,097 missionaries sent by Spain. Everybody knows the active participation of Hornachuelos monastery in the evangelization of America, where he had his own importance. As an example, was Fray Cristobal Rawboned, born in Posadas earthly and spiritually to the religious life in the monastery of Los Angeles, who founded in Peru in the Province of the Holy Trinity?
The monastery has always been filled with myths and legends, which fueled his fame not only in the distant past, but in the present more contemporary. Nowadays, runs through the village of Hornachuelos the legend that the Californian city of Los Angeles is named after the monastery was inhabited for centuries by the Franciscans. Although this city was founded by a Franciscan mission, should be investigated very carefully the casual coincidencia.Dicho myth inspired a few years ago to travel the U.S. city of Los Angeles to investigate in situ the reality of this assertion. I visited the Old City, The People, as there is known, and it searches through the streets, archives and libraries. The disappointment came when I discovered that all the information on the time of the founding of the city had been preserved in Mexico, to which he belonged at that time the Alta and Baja California. Some remnants of that not-so-distant past are guarded by Monsignor Francis Weber, at Mission San Fernando del Rey, Doyen Library.