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The retirement and tomb of doña Sancha

Santa Cruz de la Serós, La Jacetania, Huesca

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The retirement and tomb of doña Sancha

Historical milestone · Santa Cruz de la Serós, La Jacetania, Huesca

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Daughter of Ramiro I and lady of several Aragonese monasteries, doña Sancha withdrew to the Benedictine monastery where her sisters Urraca and Teresa already lived; having died in 1097, she received a Romanesque sarcophagus taken to Jaca in 1622.

1097

Photo: Gunnar Wrobel from Hamburg, Germany (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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