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The founding of the monastery of Lourenzá by the Holy Count

Lourenzá, Mariña Central, Lugo

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The founding of the monastery of Lourenzá by the Holy Count

Historical milestone · Lourenzá, Mariña Central, Lugo

Image of Lourenzá, not of the place itself.

Count Osorio Gutiérrez endowed in the valley, in the 10th century, a Benedictine monastery to which he retired after making the pilgrimage to the Holy Land; his early Christian sarcophagus, brought according to tradition by sea, remains in the abbey church.

969

Photo: Allpe (CC BY 3.0)

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