The works of art arrive at the Encarnación convent guarded by agents of the Local Police and the Civil Guard
The more than eighty works of art that the Poor Clare nuns took from the Royal Monastery of the Incarnation to a convent in Elche returned to Mula on Tuesday. After three years, the “priceless” pieces were expertly moved in two vans. Members of the Local Police and the Civil Guard monitored the transfer of oil paintings, sculptures and other precious objects. All the transfer of the works was carried out by the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage.
Both residents and leaders of the Mula City Council expressed their satisfaction with the return of the works, which are part of the Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC) of La Encarnación. In this way, three years of controversy are put to an end, in which the matter reached the courts when the sisters showed their refusal to allow the pieces to return to Mula. The Autonomous Community then initiated a lawsuit that has yet to be resolved. In fact, the mother abbess faces a fine of 100,001 euros.
The pieces, including paintings, sculptures, jewelery and reliquaries, among many other assets of great cultural and heritage value, were taken to Elche, to the convent that the Order of Santa Clara has in this town, “in breach of the Heritage Law, which determines that the objects belonging to a BIC must remain in it, ”explained municipal sources. Despite continuous offers from the City Council and the Community for the pieces to be kept in a safe place in Mula, the nuns’ refusal to return these pieces caused a major dispute between the local and regional administrations and the sisters themselves.
“During all this time, great coordinated work has been carried out between the municipal technicians and the technicians of the General Directorate of Heritage so that the pieces return to the Convent,” said the mayor, Juan Jesús Moreno. The City Council “greatly thanked the great work carried out by the technicians of both administrations, which has finally borne fruit with the return of the pieces that are part of the history of the city of Mula and that are once again kept in the Royal Convent of the Encarnación”, where the Eucharistic Communicating Sisters of the Lord currently reside.
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