Monastery of Santa María de Mezonzo

Monastery of Santa María de Mezonzo
Monastery of Santa María de Mezonzo
	Apses of the monastery.
Religion
Affiliation	Roman Catholic
Ecclesiastical or organizational status	Monastery
Location
Location	Vilasantar, Galicia, Spain
Direction of façade	West

The Monastery of Santa María de Mezonzo is a Spanish religious building in Romanesque style in the parish of Santa María de Mezonzo, in the municipality of Vilasantar. Although it probably dates back to the time of the Kingdom of the Suebi, the current monastery was founded as a double convent by Abbot Reterico. According to Antonio López Ferreiro, the monastery was donated to the Asturian-Galician king Alfonso III el Magno in 870.^[1] Justo Pérez de Urbel, after comparing the names of the confirmatory of several documents related to the monastery, thinks that the correct date is the one given by Hinojosa, that is, the year 930.^[2]^[3]^[4]

References

Bibliography

Santoro, Nicholas J. (12 August 2011). Mary In Our Life: Atlas of the Names and Titles of Mary, The Mother of Jesus, and Their Place in Marian Devotion. iUniverse. ISBN 978-1-4620-4022-3.

External links

Media related to Igrexa de Santa María de Mezonzo at Wikimedia Commons

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