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himself visited here, in the company of twelve disciples, to found a small and humble community. As with the Moors and the
Templars before them, the Franciscan friars established this location, from the beginning, as a stronghold, a place for resisting the depredations of pirates who continually
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The reception room is a well-lit rectangular room of ample proportions where, in the days of
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were still in Spain, it was hidden by submerging it off the Huelva coast. Later, fishermen hauled it up in their nets and restored it to the church of the monastery. One thing is certain: Columbus and some of his crew prayed before this image hours before setting sail for the
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in 1490 during which the mariner consulted with the
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in that year, allowing Friar Juan Rodríguez and his companions to establish a community on the coast of
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ascetics sought to become perfected spiritually so that they would be better able to defend this isolated coastal frontier of the
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