The Historic Pulpit

Rising against one of the main pillars of the central nave, the pulpit is a masterpiece of 18th-century colonial woodwork. Carved in polychrome wood and gilded with gold leaf, it displays a refined late Rococo style.

It consists of three parts: the bowl, which ends in a corbel; the sounding board, crowned by the Cross; and the backboard, which joins the two. A staircase hidden inside the wall leads up to the bowl through a door that opens in the backboard.

Its beauty reflects its importance as a place of preaching, which gained great relevance after the Council of Trent. Thanks to its remarkable acoustics and significance, some of the brightest minds of the nation's formative years prayed and preached from this pulpit, among them Bishop San Alberto, Dean Funes, Father Castro Barros, Fray Pantaleón García, OFM (the last Franciscan rector of the Colegio Convictorio de Nuestra Señora de Monserrat), and Blessed Fray Mamerto Esquiú, as well as all the bishops and archbishops of Córdoba and other figures of the Church in Argentina and abroad.

It is no longer used today: preaching now takes place from the ambo.