El convento San Agustín de Huesca

Abstract

The Saint Augustine Convent of Huesca was founded at the beginning of XVI century and was one of the ten convents that belonged to the Augustinian Province of the Aragon Kingdom. This convent can be considered to be materially modest enough with fifteen religious residing in it. Being in Huesca, a city with a university, many of its religious acquired academic titles and occupied several professorial chairs in the same university. It is one of the few cases of which Augustinians would abandon a property to transfer to the one called San Vicente Mártir abandoned by the Jesuits after their expulsion in the XVIII century. Inside of this convent lived some famous Augustinians like Fray Pedro Malón de Echaide and Fray Juan de Tolosa who were writers, and others who occupied  some dioceses like Fray Francisco López de Urraca, bishop of Barbastro, Fray Lorenzo Ibáñez who occupied the bishopric in the Kingdom of Naples and Fray Agustín Arellano, bishop of Brindisi.