The Canyelles House is an old manor building with a ground floor and two upper floors, located on Sobrerroca Street.
According to Manresan tradition and the canonization processes of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, during the first months of his stay in Manresa, the future saint spent some nights in the entrance hall of this house, after staying at the Santa Llúcia Hospital. He was hosted by one of his most faithful Manresan followers, Miquela Canyelles. According to all the testimonies collected during the processes, the pilgrim usually rested in the space between the doorway, the staircase, and the light well.
On one occasion, after inviting him to eat, Miquela’s husband, who was in the wool trade, made him a new garment “made of buriel cloth, so that Father Ignatius left behind the vile and foul-smelling sack he had been wearing,” according to the testimony of the parish priest Francesc Picalqués given in 1606.