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Gil Cordero, simple shepherd from Cáceres, appeared to him Virgin Maria.She said to him, in this place, they will be build a church and very remarkable house and great town. After these words, the Virgin disappeared. The shepherd goes to Cáceres to warn the clergy. Accompanying to the shepherd by steep and difficult footpaths, they peregrinated to the place of the miraculous event, where they excavated the rock and they found a Maria’s Image. They constructed a small hermitage there and they enthroned in it the prodigious Image. Maria, God’s Mother, received a new name: Guadalupe, that means, according to the arabists, hidden river, because in its margins the finding of this Image occurred. Our Lady Saint Maria de Guadalupe, is made of polychromed wood of cedar by unknown sculptor, is a sitting romanesque stature with the Child in her lap. She belongs to the group of sculptures of Black Virgins of the Western Europe of century 12th. Therefore, her face more than brown is black. During Alfonso’s XI time, King of Castile and Leon, already was very known this Image and its small church. Alfonso XI, in his first visit to Guadalupe in 1330, contemplated this small church in ruinous state. Then he ordered to the extension and reconstruction of the church that, at the end of reform, 1336, was turned extensive Temple, of mudejar style. Years later, 1340, King Alfonso XI trusted to Our Lady of Guadalupe the battle of the Salado, gained the victory, came to this Sanctuary to thank. Alfonso XI, again commanded to widen and to ennoblecer the Temple, giving to the set certain characteristic of fortress. The 23rd of October of 1389, the Jeronima Community, composed of 32 monks, who had come from San Bartholomew de Lupiana, took possession from the Sanctuary~Monastery of Guadalupe It was Guadalupe, during several centuries place of encounter of Kings and Princes, Alfonso XI, Pedro I, Enrique IV and his mother Lady Maria, are names of Kings who history has tie, by their fervors. It excels the fervor of Catholic Kings, Fernando and Isabel, is counted up to 20 visits In 1486 the both Kings received in this historical site the visit of Cristobal Columbus, who begged, the great adventure of the Discovery. The successors of these Monarchs, Carlos I, Felipe II, Felipe III, Felipe IV and Carlos II, honored this Sanctuary with their visits too. The Real visit resumed with Alfonso XIII and Juan Carlos I. The Sanctuary, was elevated in 1955 by the Pope Pio XII to the honors of Basilic. The Monastery, seems a palace, rich, satately and safe of itself, offering to the time and the space its unshakeable power and its majestic presence. It presents the security of its battlemented walls, the impressive height of its towers, the smart agility of its needles. The Monastery, of irregular form, distributes between its numerous buildings and yards an area of 20,000 square meters. The doors, made in century 14th by Paolo of Colony, are made of embossed bronze with scenes in relief of the life of Christ and the Virgin. The Sacristy. This sumptuous room, proclaimed "Queen of Sacristies of Spain", is the measurement of the balance, the dominion of harmony and the perfection of the elegance. The Sacristy was built during the period 1636~1645. The ship, of rectangular plant, is divided in five vaults of average point, whose arcs lean on pilasters of toscano order. The Mudejar Cloister. This architectonic work, getting up within the old seat of arms or fortress, is an almost square building, adhered to the North wall of the Temple. The Gothic Cloister. It is one of the best buildings of the gothic~flaming of Spain. It forms an ample square with three orders of arcs, excelling by its ornamentacion, luxurious in openworks, those of the main floor. The galleries are slender, dominating the elegance of the Flaming one over the Gothic~Mudejar. |
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