Three stained-glass windows by the French artist J. In 1808 the monks were expelled from the monastery and French troops were quartered in the monastery, causing major damage to the building, and the church was almost left in ruins. The Palacio del Buen Retiro was largely destroyed in the Napoleonic French occupation of Madrid. He established a royal bedroom against the presbytery, such that he could hear mass from his bedroom. When King Philip II moved the Spanish court to Madrid in 1561, he had his retreat enlarged to become the Palacio del Buen Retiro. The church was chosen for the investiture of the Princes of Asturias and future king Philip II on April 18, 1528. However, due to the marshiness of the site, which caused much sickness among the monks, in 1502 Isabella I granted the monks land on which to build a new monastery, which was built in Isabelline Gothic style. The original Hieronymites monastery, the Monasterio de Santa María del Paso, had been built near the Monte de El Pardo, on the banks of the river Manzanares, during the reign of Henry IV of Castile. Isidore was also the patron of manual laborers, not royalty, thereby relegating the role of royal chapel to this church. For many centuries, the Church of San Isidro served as a de facto cathedral, but while this church was associated with the patron saint of Madrid, St. In part, this link was cemented also because Madrid only completed its Cathedral of the Almudena in 1993. In addition, a Mass to celebrate the investiture of King Juan Carlos I was held here. Its proximity to the royal palace also underscores a connection to royalty, serving for centuries as the church used for the investiture of the Prince of Asturias. The church, which has undergone numerous remodelings and restorations over the centuries is the remaining structure of the Hieronymite monastery that once stood beside the royal palace of Buen Retiro, of which a portion now serves as the Prado museum. Saint Jerome the Royal (in Spanish San Jerónimo el Real) is a Roman Catholic church from the early 16th-century in central Madrid ( Spain).
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