San Lázaro de Paniceres (Principado de Asturias) (0)

Did you know that... San Lázaro de Paniceres

It is a place of the council of Oviedo, very close to the urban helmet of the city of Oviedo, to the shade of the mount Naranco and forced step of the Primitive Way. The existence in the place of a hospital for lepers is recorded written since the fourteenth century, but it is believed that its origin must have been quite earlier, although it only remains the name of the town, San Lazaro de Paniceres. This hospital and the one in another of the entrances to the city of Oviedo, that of Cervielleso Entrecaminos, were intrinsically related. When the disease of leprosy was remitting, back in the second half of the eighteenth century, the goods of the malateries and the patients who were still in them, were transferred to the Royal Hospice of the Asturian capital and years later the land occupied by these hospitals were leased and their materials auctioned. With these materials, the Quinta Méndez was built, of which the remains can still be seen. The Quinta had a chapel in which the image of San Lázaro was kept, which also came from malting, and which seems to have disappeared during the Civil War.

To discover What to see in San Lázaro de Paniceres?

In San Lázaro de Paniceres you can see some decorated paneras, good examples of the traditional architecture of the area.

Traditions

Tradition has it that many leprosy sufferers made a more or less integrated life in society, even neighbors used to welcome them in their homes and at their tables, despite the fear of contagion of one of the most feared diseases at the time. But on a good day in the year 1543 the town council decreed that the maladies could not circulate freely in the city and that they had to enter the Paniceres hospital within three days at most, after which the one who had not done so would receive a hundred lashes as punishment.

Curiosities

In the 14th century leprosy was protected by nobles, kings and ecclesiastics, since the protection of malateries was considered one of the greatest acts of Christian charity, since leprosy, pellagra, rose disease, that of Saint Lazarus... were among the most feared diseases of antiquity. Saint Lazarus and the Magdalene are the patron saints of lepers and hospitals were founded under their title.