Hospital de Jesús Nazareno (Mexico City, 1524): the hospital named after an Indian woman's image

The hospital Hernán Cortés founded at Huitzillan appears in the city council's own books in 1524 and was still working when a government geographer surveyed the city in 1867. It was endowed and then badly run - the neglect of its patients became proverbial - and it does not carry Cortés's name: it took the name of an image of Jesus Nazareno owned by Petronila Gerónima, a wealthy Indian woman, whose bequest assigned it by lot to the hospital in 1663.