Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book . et, when the blending tints are soft and delicate. The Cumbre viewto the east overlooks the town with its bright colored houses, the harborand the broad expanse of the sea, with the shore-line seen stretching awayin a series of crescents marked by the white surf breaking on the sand. The Hermitage of Montserrate was built in 1870 by Cuban residentswho were natives of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands and theirdescendants. It contain
Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book . et, when the blending tints are soft and delicate. The Cumbre viewto the east overlooks the town with its bright colored houses, the harborand the broad expanse of the sea, with the shore-line seen stretching awayin a series of crescents marked by the white surf breaking on the sand. The Hermitage of Montserrate was built in 1870 by Cuban residentswho were natives of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands and theirdescendants. It contains a shrine fashioned from cork brought from Spain,representing the shrine in the Monastery cf IMontserrate, the sacredmountain of the Catalans. Avhich rises from the plateau of Cataluna. TheSpanish monastery was built in 880 to enshrine La Santa Imagen, a smallwooden figure of the Virgin, which the legend says was made by and was taken to Spain by St. Peter. It was before this image thatIgnatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order, hung up his weapons,,renounced the world, and devoted himself to the service of Christ and the io6 THE STANDARD OF M0NT5ERRATE. Virgin. The Monastery is one of the most popular shrines of Christendom;in some years, en the occasion of the annnal festival of September 8,60,000 pilgrims have resorted to it. The same day is observed in Cubawith pilgrimages to this Matanzas church. Here, as in Spain, manymiracles have been ascribed to Our Lady of IMontserrate; and in thechurch are numerous votive offerings given in fulfillment of vows. Amongthem are the elaborate shell work flower pieces which decorate the altar;the diamond ear-drops, necklace and crucifix worn by the image of OurLady; the crude paintings of a railroad wreck and model of hand andsling; crutches, a brides orange blossoms, and numerous other articles,each with its story of distress, of appeal to the Virgin, and of gratitudefor her intercession. The caves of Bella
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