St. Bernard Cathedral, San Bernardo building a new one in its place, which was finally inaugurated on November 25, 2000, being consecrated by Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, Pontifical Legate for the celebration of the Jubilee Of 2000 in Chile. St. Bernard Cathedral, San Bernardo The St. Bernard Cathedral () Also San Bernardo Cathedral Is the main Catholic temple and seat of the Bishopric of San Bernardo, located to one side of the Plaza de Armas de San Bernardo, in the metropolitan area of Santiago in Chile. The original cathedral was built in 1820 as the seat of the city's parish. It worked in this way
José de San Martín that it was not possible to defend Concepción, so he ordered O'Higgins to leave the city. 50,000 Chileans took cattle and grain and moved north, burning everything else, so that they did not leave supplies for the royalists. As he had done with the Tucumán Congress, San Martín urged a declaration of independence, to legitimize the government and the military actions. The Chilean Declaration of Independence was issued on 18 February 1818, one year after the battle of Chacabuco. San Martín, Las Heras and Balcarce met in Curicó, and the royalists in Talca, in a plain known as "Cancha rayada".