MAS SP - Museu de Arte Sacra de São Paulo

This guide to MAS SP - Museu de Arte Sacra de São Paulo opens with a nun's claim that Christ had appeared to her in her cell, and a friar named Antonio de Sant'Ana Galvão who believed her enough to build his life around it. With new convents banned by royal decree, he designed and built this refuge himself, working the earthen walls beside enslaved laborers and the sisters he sheltered, over twenty-eight years until it was blessed in 1802. Look up at the facade for the faint sketch he scratched into the plaster, the only trace of towers his successors never built.