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One of the characteristics of the noble houses throughout the 16^th and 17^th Centuries was the help that the religious order provided, sometimes to groups which leaded reforming movements in the foundation of Monasteries and Churches and in the maintenance of these institutions.

So this is what Mrs. Beatriz Ramírez de Mendoza did, countess of Castellar, who gave the Monastery to Fray Juan del Santísimo in Sevilla at the end of September 1603, date in which the Hermanos Mercedarios Descalzos took possession of the Almoraima Monastery, according to what is stated in the pictures preserved in the Monastery. In fact, the Religious Order is founded in this place.

The Almoraima Monastery was the first of the Reformed Order, that celebrated its tercentenary in this settlement in 2006 and always enjoyed the protection of the Counts of Castellar until 1839, when it was expropriated by the State and Los Descalzos had to abandon it.

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