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Soledad and remoteness are the adjectives that come to mind when we are next to the Monastery, in Cazorla. Every year, on the last Sunday of September a rosemary makes Montesión come back to life, as during the year there was only one person in it, the danger of ruin in the building being constant. The visitor can appreciate different stages in its construction although its foundation dates back to 1625. The monasteries under the advocation of St. Paul and St. Anthony Abad highlighted for their poverty and austerity as you can see if you approach Montession.
This is evident in the lack of materials and in the lack of furniture. Only the chapel with a Latin cross floor and a dome in which some frescoes are still preserved stand out.
The difficulties of the 17th century may have motivated the foundation of this monastery especially at a time when bad crops, hunger and bad weather caused the emergence of epidemics of the feared plague. The order of San Antonio Abad was dedicated to the healing of the sick and the fear of contagion caused these buildings to be far from the populations. Along with the plague, the economic crisis, the rise in prices, wars and in general the hardships led to an increase in the clergy and religious foundations in a context in which the Monarchy offered a contradictory vision that oscillated from splendor and misery or boom and decline.
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