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Triumph of the Church, of the Virgin, and of the 

 Eucharist, the Assumption,&c.,are very well done. 

 The restoration of the fabric has often been 

 denounced, but it is difficult to see how it could 

 have been better carried out. 



In the neighbourhood of the Great Captain's 

 chapel is a monument to a hero and a great 

 Spaniard of a very different type. Juan de 

 Robles devoted himself to the sick and the suffer- 

 ing with a zeal which earned for him confinement 

 in a madman's cage. His virtues were recognised 

 after his death, and procured him canonisation 

 as St. John of God in 1669. A tribute to his 

 memory which he would have no doubt appre- 

 ciated better is the large hospital founded two 

 years after his death, that is, in 1552. The saint's 

 ashes, in a silver coffin, repose in the hospital 

 chapel, a gorgeous structure, characterised by 

 costliness and bad taste. The trail of the serpent 

 of Spanish architecture Churriguera is over 

 all. All that is interesting in it is the portrait 

 of the saint, a copy of one in Madrid. 



The name of the Great Captain is associated 

 with the Cartuja, or suppressed Carthusian 

 monastery, the site of which was his gift. The 

 monastery, begun in 1516, was pulled down in 

 1842. A small portion of the buildings, however, 

 remains, together with the church. The single nave 

 is disfigured by over-elaborate ornamentation 



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