The open chapel located in the porteria has a small presbytery with a folk retablo of the seventeenth century. Flanking it, there are two mural paintings with scenes of the life of Saint Francis receiving the stigmata and the other is St. Francis preaching to the birds in the country side. It is interesting to note that the landscapes that appear as setting of the frescoes are not European, but typical places of the Valley of Mexico. In this way, the Indians placed St. Francis in their own ancestral and sacred land (altepetl). It is evidence of the beginning of the native assimilation and reinterpretation of the Christian religion, that in time would generate people with a new identity and vision of the world.
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