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Going to the Cave

  In March,1522 Ignatius Loyola, a noble Basque soldier, recently recovered from war injuries, went on pilgrimage south to Montserrat, a monastery and Marian shrine near Barcelona. So he left the north of Spain, his own Basque country which he loved ardently as all Basques do, and went to Catalonia where they spoke Spanish, away […]