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Los quatro misticos rios del paraiso de la iglesia, quatro hermanos santos, Leandro, Fulgencio, Isidoro, y Florentina, Honra de Cartagena, Gloria de España, y Esmalte de la Fè Catholica. Breve compendio de sus vidas, y virtudes, coronado co

4to. pp. (28) 192 + (facing p. 1), fold-out engraving of the four saints with panorama of Cartagena, and (facing p. 59) woodcut and letterpress family tree. Bound in contemporary vellum. Stamp of Real Convento de Religiosas Ursulinas, Molina de Aragon; MS shelf mark label. First edition. Scholarly work on the history of the city of Cartagena, containing the lives of four early saints - three brothers and a sister, including the bishop and encyclopedist Isidore of Seville and his sister, the abbess Florentina (d.612), and an illustrated genealogy of their family. It has some guidebook elements: there is a description of the ‘House of the Four Saints’, erected by the bishop Sancho Dávila Toledo (1546-1625) in the episcopal palace, and the iconography of its chapel; and of the miracle-giving statue of the Virgen del Rosell, and its placement in a chapel of the cathedral, again alongside images of the Four Saints. At end is a novena and hymns to the Saints. A life of Florentina describes in particular her rule of the female monastery of St. Benedict in Écija, southern Spain. A brutal story is given of how later, when the Arabs came to take the city in 711, the nuns implored their saint

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