Taken in Feb, 2008..........it's been a couple of dreary days here so my mind has drifted back to Mexico. This is the Franciscan monastery established in 1549, it was built using cut stones from the Pre-Columbian buildings of Maní. Inside are some early colonial era fresco murals. In July 1562, Friar Diego de Landa held an auto de fe Inquisitional cerermony in Maní, burning a number of Maya hieroglyphic books and a reported 5000 idols, saying that they were "works of the devil". This act along with numerous incidents of torture at the monastery were examples of the techniques used to speed the mass adoption of Christianity throughout the region. from Wikipedia