Mallorca - Santuari de Cura
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It seems that the importance of Cura (the upper part of the Randa
mountain) began in the XIII century, after James 1st's conquest. The
name of this Majorcan place calls to mind aspects different in
themselves, but which in its case are strongly linked:
LLOC DE LES ERMITES (Place of the Hermitages). In the XIV and XV
centuries, hermit life was in vogue in all of Europe, Majorca took
part in this current or ideal of religious life In the eyes of the
Christians of the those days, the mountain of Randa appeared as the
ideal place That is why the three sanctuaries on the mountain today
owe their origin to three erstwhile hermits.
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'Vida Coetànea' tells us that Ramon Llull withdrew to a mountain
about tens years after this conversion and after being there for
eight days had the famous 'illumination'. After wilting his book in
the La Real Abbey, he returned to the mountain and had a hermitage
built where he stayed for four months. Successive events resulted in the Cura mountain being the mountain where Ramon Llull withdrew. In the second half of the XIV century (year 1394), the Bishop of Majorca, Luis de Prades, testified that hermits had been living in that loneliness for more than thirty years. Still today long, narrow holes can be seen on the top of the Cura mountain. They are no more than one or two metres deep. About eleven well defined cells have been counted in the west part of the Sanctuary, and about ten probable as well as five very doubtful in the east part. |
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The people of Majorca still today relate the Cura mountain with
Ramon Llull. The spirit of prayer and contemplation and also the
enthusiasm for his doctrine, hangs in the air of that place. Ramon Llull (1239-1316) was born in Majorca and lived in a society in which Moslems, Jews and Christians coexisted peacefully. His missionary impulse was have this context as basis. He was to travel, to write, to make know to Popes, kings, bishops, religious men, etc ... a method, a rational human basis, to present to speak to people of other cultures and religions of the beauty, the truth, the love, the transcendency of the Lord, Jesus Christ. He knew no bounds for transmitting his knowledge of God to mankind. HALL OF GRAMMAR AND MUSEUM |
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The premises of the anterior Llullian School were rebuilt and a
grammar school was set up in the ancient building, dated 1510 with
an annual pension of 50 pounds, depending on the Dean and
Councillors of the Llullian School established in the General Study
of the Town. The growth undergone by the Randa School caused the Jurymen of the Kingdom of Majorca, to facilitate and favour learning the young, to project the amplification of professorships and there set up a General Study where Grammar, Rhetoric and Greek would be taught. This was dealt with and agreed at the session of May at 1553. At that time the foundations of the magnificent school hall were laid down, as efficient as ¡t is monumental, of the greatest solidity. In 1566 around one hundred pupils lived in the school. In 1588 there were already between one hundred and fifty and one hundred and sixty. Behind the professor's chair there was an altar dedicated to Saint Catherine, Virgin and Martyr, whose image was to be seen in a painting; she was the student's Patron Saint. |
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In XIX century witnessed the final process of decadence witch the
political authorities allowed the School to take. On January 25th
1826, Juan Pablo Abrines handed in his resignation as the school's
last professor. His resignation was accepted. Today certain
religious objects and books relating to the cult are still preserved
in the Grammar Hall; there are also other books, printings or
manuscripts related with Llullism; others, of different subjects,
have their relative antiquity as common denominator. Also, a
collection of paintings of fundamentally religious type hangs on the
wall. There are shelves containing different representation of Ramon
Llull and a small collection of typical Majorcan earthenware pots.
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