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On September 10, 1579, Doña MarĂa de Guzmán, a young, beautiful, and rich widow founded this monastery which only accepted young women from upper-class Spanish families.
At the time, it was a tradition for the second daughter of a wealthy family to enter a life of service to the church. …
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