Real Colegio Seminario del Corpus Christi

The Real Colegio Seminario del Corpus Christi (Royal College and Seminary of Corpus Christi) is a former Roman Catholic school and seminary founded in 1583 in the Spanish city of Valencia.

It is structured around a large renaissance cloister enclosing the church, the communion chapel, the library, the sleeping quarters and the classrooms.

[2][1] Of special note in the Patriarch Museum are paintings by Caravaggio, El Greco, Van Der Teyden, Benlliure, Ribalta and Pinazo, as well as an original manuscript by Sir Thomas More.

[2] Also preserved there is the only surviving copy of the 1592 world map by the notable Dutch-Flemish astronomer, cartographer and Protestant clergyman Petrus Plancius, titled "Nova et exacta Terrarum Orbis Tabula geographica ac hydrographica".

[3] Archbishop of Valencia Juan de Ribera, who founded the institution, arranged housing there for the Franciscan nun, mystic Sr. Margarita Agullona (1536 - 1600) so he could bear witness to her mystical raptures and for 25 years.