In a little chapel are buried the remains of the old friars; here also is a beautiful old carved confessional.

In front of the old church is a great court surrounded by a stone wall, which is surmounted here and there with little, pointed, square pillars.

To the right of the church is a mass of masonry, in reddish-brown freestone, consisting of a series of arches, now more or less in ruins.

When the convent was at the height of its splendor, the crowd of worshippers was too large for the church itself, and these beautiful arches were erected to receive the overflow.
In the church itself, the plaster in the domes of the towers and the coloring on the walls and domes had chipped and fallen, on account of the earthquake, the day before.

In the ruins of the upper rooms of the convent proper, stone and mortar, dislodged from the decaying walls by the same shocks, lay in little heaps on the floor.
The _cura_ had ten churches in his charge.