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The cave of the virgin, real sanctuary of Montesclaros, Cantabria
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| The monastery shelters a cave in the buttom of your facilitieses, that it could have been habitation of hermits from the |orígenes| of the Christianity in the area. appear be that the first diffusers of the Christianity for these places, went the Roman soldiers of Julióbriga, to 8 km. of Montesclaros. fit suspects that, as the Christianity it was persecuted in the Roman time, some Christian could be sheltered in these mount and set your dwelling in the cave. It is possible it toes to judge for the |prerrománica| chapel that the image of the virgin has been brought for the visigothes ( at the side of the |prerromanica| chapel draws to him a standard Gothic arc ), about the year 1000 and that in some moment was buried in the cave, in the presence of the fears of the time, and that according to the tradition, it was uncovered for a bull that took cattle to graze the places, as do still, nowadays. The current image is of the XIV century with some restorations and it was crowned on 10th September 1967 canonically, after be noted patroness of the jurisdiction and post of a district judge in 1721 and major mayoress in 1954. [url=http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Monasterio_de_Montesclaros_6.JPGAutor Dolmanrg[/url] |
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