Templo y Ex-Convento de la Concepción ("Church and Ex-convent of the Immaculate Conception")
Only Puebla could have women like those who lived here.
7 Oriente and 16 de Septiembre

Founded in 1593, the convent later also served as a church which was consecrated in 1617. It should be noted that the access points to this church, like other convent churches, were in one of the side walls. This was done so as not to hinder the entry of the nuns on their walk from the lower choir area on their way to the altar, a walk that symbolized the path to redemption; even though the church is laid out like a conventional church, oriented towards a main entrance at one end, that entrance doesn't actually exist: there is just a wall that abutted the convent, which today is a hotel and in which you can still see signs of the mural on the cloister walls.

In the lower choir area is the burial place of Sister María de Jesús de Tomelín, better known as the "Lily of Puebla". This Conceptionist nun was a famous mystic, who even, according to her biographers, had had visions since childhood of souls in purgatory and of the Virgin Mary offering the baby Jesus to her.

It is said that when she died, in 1637, her corpse had an odd sweat of very pleasant fragrance, and that when the nuns of this convent opened her tomb to gather evidence of her holiness, in 1685, they found the fragrance had endured. It is also said that 10 miracles were made with her remains, including putting out a fire with a piece of her veil, which also cured the nuns during an epidemic. As if that wasn't enough it is proclaimed that 29 miracles were made using the earth from her grave.

You can't miss seeing the buttresses that support the wall facing the street, as well as the railings of the high choir area and the stone carvings on the two lateral facades!