The basilica of St Francis in Spite of the Fire, the Colonial Heritage of the Franciscans in Buenos Aires and the Conflicts with Peronists in the Middle of the 20th Century

El acervo franciscano de Buenos Aires proviene desde la temprana era colonial; sobrevivio al tiempo y, tambien, al fuego intencional sobre el convento y la basilica durante un conflicto entre la Iglesia argentina y el Presidente Gral. Juan Domingo Peron, la noche del 16 de junio de 1955 (hubo un bombardeo sobre la Casa de Gobierno y, como respuesta, una quema de las iglesias, durante esa noche). En el Museo Franciscano 'Bottaro' hay una seleccion y valorizacion de objetos coloniales que tiene por proposito hilvanar la historia de los franciscanos con su pasado evangelizador. No obstante, interesa especialmente dar cuenta de algunos cambios en el proceso constitutivo del museo como espacio de memoria historica a traves de las representaciones del conflicto con Peron, considerandolo dentro del contexto previo al golpe de estado que lo derroco el 16 de septiembre de 1955. Se hara hincapie en el suceso de la quema de las Iglesias, en la exaltacion de la figura de un fraile peronista como elemento armonizador y, luego, en la resignificacion actual de ese pasado The Franciscan estate of Buenos Aires comes from the early colonial era. It survived time and also the intentional fire that was set on the convent and the basilica during the conflict between the Argentinian church and the president Gral Juan Domingo Peron, during the night of June 16th 1955 (there was a bombardment on the house of the governor and, as a retaliation, churches were set on fire that night). In the Franciscan museum 'Bottaro' there is a selection and a valorization of colonial objects that have for purpose to disengage the history of the Franciscans with its evangelizing past. However, it is especially interesting to give an account of several changes in the constitutive process of the museum as a space of historical memory through its representation of the conflict with Peron, considering it within the context previous to the Coup d'etat that took him down on September 16th, 1955. It is highlighted in the success of the burning of the churches, in the exaltation of the figure of a Peronist friar as a harmonizing element, and later, in the current process of giving a new meaning to this past. Adapted from the source document.