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From the City of Mula we want to take advantage of these lines to show, the grief and the feeling of loss that the entire city of Mula feels with the absence of the Poor Clare Sisters of the Royal Monastery of the Incarnation after more than three centuries of permanence of this order in Our city.
A monastery that throughout its more than three hundred years of convent life has shared with the muleños key moments of Muleña history, being a religious order very dear and supported by the citizens who have always been with the sisters.
Proof of this is the great support that the people of Mula showed to the religious order after the civil war, turning through private donations and financial aid with the religious so that sooner or later they would recover their religious and spiritual life after the contention of the 36.
Since this City Council was aware of the Vatican's decision to close those monasteries and convents that did not reach a minimum number of religious and that these regulations seriously affected our Royal Monastery of the Incarnation, we set to work to try to avoid this sad outcome that Now we live
They have been months of hard work and negotiations with the nuns that due to the prudence and discretion, necessary in moments of negotiation, we have taken with the maximum possible confidentiality before the public opinion.
Once this unfortunate process of closure of our beloved Monastery and in an exercise of transparency and information to the citizenship has come to an irreversible end, it is the will of this City Council to let everyone know that this situation has worried and interested, all the steps and procedures that we have carried out always keeping in mind a double objective;
preserve the monastic life of the building and safeguard its artistic heritage:
After the first confirmations of the intention of the Order to close the convent, and when the norm came from Rome, the City Council sent a letter addressed to Pope Francis expressing the will of this municipality to avoid its closure.
Letter of which we had an answer, telling us from the Vatican that they would study the petition.
We had a meeting with the Bishop of the diocese of Cartagena, in which he assured us that the diocese would take charge of the cult of the church but that the question of the closing of the convent was a decision of the Order and in this sense they had autonomy for it. .
After dispatching with the Bishop we went to the Superior of the Province of the Order of Santa Clara, having with her an intense meeting in the convent of Santa Clara de Murcia, to which the mayor and the Councilor for Culture moved.
In said meeting, the will of the City Council was expressed to make an agreement with the Order and to assume the transfer of the building, recognizing and respecting its ownership by the Order and agreeing on the terms that both parties, Religious and City Hall, agree on the use and enjoyment for the muleños and muleñas.
Likewise, we show you the willingness of said City Council to work together in the search for solutions to the serious problem of preserving the historic building for the municipality, as well as the heritage equipment that it retained inside.
Parallel to these negotiations, and after being informed by the Sisters who were looking for other orders willing to stay with the convent, the City Council was even personally contacting religious institutions throughout Spain to occupy the monastery and thus avoid the closure and deterioration of the building and work together with the sisters in a solution.
The General Directorate of Cultural Assets, aware of the future closure of the convent and because both the building and the trousseau is declared of Cultural Interest, intervened worried about the uncertain future of the tens of pieces that are part of the BIC.
In this intervention, the Clarisas Sisters confessed to having transferred, for security reasons, all the heritage to the convent of the Clarisas Sisters of Elche, since it is the convent to which the two sisters who form the community of sisters of Mula are destined.
These sisters have been required by the Directorate General for having caused two serious infractions;
Move the pieces of the convent without prior notice or information to the Autonomous Community and, in addition, move them to the Valencian Community, this being a reason for sanction.
When the City Council learned of this fact, the local authorities moved to the convent of Elche, where they had an intense meeting with the superior in which they were shown great concern and were offered the means of the City Council for the return of the pieces as well as the Convent of San Francisco, a building that has a place of security enabled for this purpose, as a place to temporarily house the pieces and thus rid the Religious Community of the possible sanction that they may suffer, finding us with a negative response to the proposal of the City Council, refusing to return the artistic pieces.
Throughout this intense process the communication between the religious Order and the City Council has been continuous, but, unfortunately, this week we received a call from the sisters communicating to us the imminent cessation of religious life in the monastery that, according to them, will possibly be occupied by a male religious association.
We deeply regret that the negotiations with the City Council have ceased unilaterally without closing agreements and consensus regarding the Building and the parts it housed inside, depriving the people of Mula of it.
It only remains for us to wait for what decisions other administrations will make when the BIC of the Royal Monastery of the Incarnation has been substantially modified and publicly state that, despite the fact that the great effort in recent months has had a negative result for our culture and heritage, From the City Council of Mula we will continue to take the appropriate steps in defense of this, working flatly as it has been done so far.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mula
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