The Hermitage of Saint Paul and the water tank
Built in 1308, it was initially under the
patronage of Saint Mark and Saint Barbara.
The leper hospital moved there in 1322.
In 1412 it was donated to some hermits
from Montserrat, who dedicated it to Saint
Paul. In the fifteenth century a community
of monks from Valldaura settled there and
it became a Cistercian priory, linked to the
Monastery of Poblet. In 1522 Ignatius of
Loyola started to visit the Hermitage and
he became friends with the prior, Alfonso
de Agurreta, whom he defined as a “very
spiritual man”. Ignatius tried to see him
again after returning from the Holy Land,
but Alfonso had already died. Jesuit tank: a hydraulic engineering
invention which collected water from the
Sèquia canal. It was probably built in the
eighteenth century on instructions of the
Society of Jesus in order to irrigate that
part of the city when the convent of Saint
Paul was acquired by the College of Saint
Ignatius in 1700