taxes on his assets and especially on the Hacienda Guachalá, located in the Cayambe valley, becoming its patron saint. After his death, the chapel was to pass to his legitimate children, failing which, to the natural he had, and as there were no direct heirs, he appointed his brother Juan de Villacís as his successor. Being established that the costs of ornamentation of the chapel would be borne by its patron, these had been entrusted to Quitoan Friar Antonio Rodríguez. In 1939 the friars had difficulties with some heirs of Francisco de Villacís, who claimed rights over the chapel. In a special way about the crypt that belonged to them and that the Convent had given, about six years ago, to Mr. Pacífico Chiriboga y Borja, believing that there were no heirs with the right to this space. The patrons of the chapel lost their rights by not accepting a contract, by which they were offered the old crypt behind the sacristy, where the religious were buried, in exchange for paying ten thousand sucres in cash. In this way, in the year 1947, within a general process of the Order, to value its artistic treasures, the community undertook the repair and arrangements of this space. On 26 October of this year, it was blessed, devoting it to the cult of the Sacred Heart. Chapel of the Pillar of Zaragoza The Chapel of Santa Marta, del Comulgatorio or del Santísimo, at the left end of the main altar, was dedicated from the second half of the 18th century to the cult of the image of the Blessed Our Lady of the Pillar of Zaragoza, brought from Spain by Friar José de Villamar Maldonado, exact copy of the work of the sculptor Pedro de Mena. In the year 1671 the brotherhood was established and three years later the old vault of the Tertiary Order was granted to its brothers. Apparently, this was in force until the middle of the 19th century, registering its last brothers in 1848. Chapel of Cantuña Originally called the Chapel of la Cofradía de la Veracruz de Naturales,15 it is one of the side chapels of the convent, located at the southern end of the atrium, and which is dedicated to the veneration of the Our Lady of Sorrows and Saint Luke the Evangelist. It was handed over by the Franciscans to the Brotherhood of the Veracruz de