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Pious endowments and the burial of Marina de Zuazola at the Convent of the Santísima Trinidad in Granada (1590)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
April 20, 2026

Various documents enable us to reconstruct the large funeral procession of Marina de Zuazola Idiáquez from her home to the Church of El Sagrario in Granada, where the requiem mass …

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