SAN ROQUE MUSEUM

San Roque was a temple and Fransican Convent and in the year 1575 became a center for the evangelism of the Maya until 1634 when it was changed to a hospital, the first in the village named for the Sainted name of Jesus. 

The building was renamed after several war victims were buried in the back of the building after being executed. The remains of Mayors Hipólito de Osorno and Pedro Gabriel de Covarrubias, men who were brought to fame by perpetrating the death of two men who had taken refuge in the church in the town square. Because of this the church was partly rebuilt with the door facing north instead of west as all of the other catholic churches. 

The building was also part of the first spark of the Mexican Revolution when some perpetrators were executed in the back patio and then buried there in 1910. Reconstruction and restoration of the building started in 1983, returning it to its current splendor. In 1993 the building was converted into a museum. 

In San Roque was founded the Brotherhood of la Santa Veracruz which was in Valladolid, Mérida and Campeche in the year 1575, or 30 years after the city was moved from the original site of Chouac-há to Zací. 

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