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was found to contain a tricolour flag. She met 

 her death with a courage worthy of her cause. 

 Five years later, when the nation had recovered 

 its sanity, her ashes were carried in state to the 

 Ayuntamiento. The magistrate who had con- 

 demned her was in his turn executed. On the 

 same site many Spanish patriots were shot by 

 the French their labour and their lives being 

 given to replace Ferdinand VII. on the throne 

 The square, formerly called the Campillo, is now 

 named after Mariana Pineda. You may see there 

 her statue in marble, sculptured by Marna and 

 Morales. 



The hill called the Sacro Monte is a curious 

 memorial of human credulity. In 1594 one 

 Francisco Hernandez reported to the Archbishop 

 Don Pedro Vaca de Castro that he had discovered 

 the relics of several local martyrs in the caves 

 here. A church of no architectural merit was 

 raised on the spot, and became a place of pil- 

 grimage the evidence that the martyrs referred 

 to had ever existed being meanwhile wanting. 

 Within the church are preserved some leaden 

 books, inscribed in Arabic characters, and sup- 

 posed to contain the acts, of the saints. These 

 works were the subject of a furious controversy 

 in the seventeenth century. The caves are 

 interesting on account of their natural peculiari- 

 ties, and were quite probably catacombs used by 



