One more beautiful church DH visited in Madrid

 Hello, everyone.

As has been mentioned before, when my leg got injured, I spent days recuperating in the room and DH wandered the city. He brought back photos to share with me each time.

One was a church we had actually never heard of before. It's a very old church and it may have been the official cathedral in the past. (Now La Almudena, across a large plaza from the Palacio Real, is it.) It was a Franciscan church, so there are numbers of paintings of various saints who were members of that order.

I'm not sure if this is St. Francis preaching, or St. Anthony de Padua.

Emblems of various military orders that served over the centuries. To the right of the Hospitallers is the Order of Santiago.

St. Francis receiving the approval of his Rule for the order.

Because this church is in Madrid, there are also themes of historical and cultural significance that don't involve St. Francis or his disciples, too.

The apparition of St. James as Santiago Matamoros at the battle of Clavijo, in an unusually hands-on image. I thought that the saint appeared over the heads of the nearly-beaten Christian army and inspired them to rise up and charge to a miraculous victory. The cross, the sword, and the white horse are always part of the depiction. 

Possibly St. Dominic? He's showing the rosary. 

I thought at first this was a depiction of the Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Now I wonder if it's actually a depiction of her Assumption into heaven at the end of her life on earth. (I'm basing this on the way the angels are lifting her up. 

While he was out, he got a neat reflection photo of the church and the oncoming weather.