House of Culture Fray Andrés de San Miguel

English translation: , House of Culture Fray Andrés de San Miguel , Since its foundation, Salvatierra has had a big influence from religious orders. Franciscans, Augustinians, Dominicans and Camelites have left a deep mark on the historical legacy of the region. , One of the most notable of these religious men was Friar Andres de San Miguel, born in 1577 in the town of Medina Sidonia, Province of Cadiz in Andalucia, Spain. Originally he was called Andres Segura and since a young age he had an adventurous and inquisitive spirit. Like most Spaniards of his time, he wanted to visit the New World, so he embarked in the late XVI century to the New Spain. However, the ship he was traveling sank, tradition says that, Andrés swore that if saved, he would take the monastic habits for the rest of his life. , No matter how, Andrés Segura arrived safely to the port of Veracruz, where he traveled to Pueblo and joined the Carmelite order in 1598, taking the name of Friar Andrés de San Miguel. Very quickly his superiors noticed his intellectual faculties, so they allowed him to continue his studies in mathematics, geography, engineering, architecture, astronomy and hydrography, becoming pretty soon one of the leading experts in these fields. , Friar Andrés de San Miguel wrote several treatises, he was even consulted in the Texcoco drainage works and other works of importance in the New Spain. He designed religious buildings in Coyoacán, Celaya, Querétaro, Desierto de los Leones and his posthumous work: the Convent del Carmen in Salvatierra. He died in this city in 1654. , In honor of this distinguished New Spain's intellectual the local House of Culture is named after him, as a symbol of pride and academic tradition that started from the time of the founding of the city of Salvatierra. . This historical marker is in Salvatierra Guanajuato Mexico