Anton Martin
Location
this square is located in the Calle de Atocha, including the completion of the Calle de la Magdalena and the principle of God's Love Story
No special numbers, but uses of the said street Atocha. Appears with this name from the Century XVII. Records are kept private construction since 1781. On this site existed in the old one wicket, which then had to be demolished to allow more expansion of the population. Pinelo Leon said that the site now occupied by the square of Anton Martin had a hermitage of San Sebastián. The parish of Santa Cruz had grown much, and the Swiss lawyer, that he enjoyed, he agreed that hiciese one for a nephew who had, which was founded the year 1550 the parish of San Sebastian, the Chapel of the extinct invocation. Hospital San Juan de Dios .- According to copies of original documents that we have to look at, this hospital was founded by Venerable Ant On Martin
on land were D. Somonte Fernando and his wife Doña Catalina Zapata, by agreement of November 3, 1552 Brother of hospital founder of Our Lady of the Love of God was natural in the town of Mira (Mancha) and a male companion of the glorious San Juan de Dios. As the teacher said Gil Gonzalez Davila, to the founding of the hospital gave King wood forest Valsain and Princess Dona Juana asked a lot of handouts. Her dress was a robe of sackcloth, walked barefoot and bareheaded, fasted for more days on bread and water, never left the sackcloth and gave his spirit to the Lord on December 24, 1553 and was buried in convent San Francisco, by disposition itself, where he forty-two years until he was taken to hospital with one of the biggest bubble that saw the court. The hospital of Our Lady of Montserrat, for the natives of the Crown of Aragon, was established in the Lavapies the year 1616 in a house, with the object stated, had given Don Gaspar de Ponz. In 1658 he moved to the point that is local to improve, saying the first Mass in the church today the 1st of May 1678. The square was a source of monumental, designed by Rivera, a work that could be considered as the height of corruption in the art, but by this circumstance was the subject of inestimable value. It was good agreement removing it from the square because public transit embarrassed, but habiéndola moved to the neighborhood of Peñuelas, was forgotten and lost, as the door of Recoletos. The most popular place to aim for installation is, in our view, the Retiro, and may still arrive in time to mend the mangled remains of the source and keep it for study of the art in a happy time ago.
About Anton Martin
Anton Martin was born in the town of Cuenca Mira in 1500. During his youth served various jobs in different locations near Valencia. In that time he received the news that his brother had been killed in a village in Granada. The reason is that they had married the daughter of the landowner for whom he worked but with the woman he loved. It seems that the brother of the rejected suitor, in an act of defiance, ended his VIDA therefore Anton Martin decides to take justice into their own hands. Its sole purpose is to avenge the death of his brother. Takes to the street, subsisting on the most insignificant using less deseables.Es arts at this time when there is the miraculous conversion of our protagonist. It appears that Juan de Dios, a man known Granada to collect the poor and sick and give them shelter in his little shelter, he meets Anton Martin and recommends to forgive the murderer of his brother. This scene is portrayed by P. Manuel Trench in his engraving "John of God becomes the swordsman Antón Martín." From this moment his life is dedicated to the work of John of God became his first disciple. Work together for four years at the Hospital of Granada for the most vulnerable.
After the death of his teacher is debt to be paid and therefore decided to travel to Madrid. It is in the Court where you will find the support needed to establish the Hospital of Our Lady Love of God, in the Atocha area, known as the Hospital de Antón Martín. A year after their operation muere.Fue buried in 1553 in the Convent of San Francisco. In 1596 his bones were transferred to the Hospital church he created. In July 1936 this church was being totally destroyed in a fire. Interestingly, the tomb of Anton Martin remained intact. Eventually his remains rest in the Hospital Infantil de San Antón Martín Rafael.El Hospital housed 200 beds and was devoted to venereal diseases and skin. It ran over three centuries, until 1897. Its dilapidated state increasingly became necessary to transfer to the Hospital San Juan de Dios is located in Round Esquerdo Doctor. The genuine building was partly demolished and another was used to install the first cinema in Madrid, Cine Doré. Source
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