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In the First Room there are
many liturgical vestments and objects, valuable either on
account of their antiquity or artistic quality. All of them
are duly labeled.
In the Second Room, the frontage
if occupied by the altar of the old Manresa Chapel that
used to be on the first floor of the Tower-House. It is
a fine item of woodwork of plateresque style, all of it
of mahogany, made in the workshop of Saturnino
López Gómez, known as the “hunchbacked
man from Burgos.”
In the center there is a reproduction of the Cave
of Manresa, made in wood pulp, which shows St Ignatius
writing the Exercises under the inspiration of the Blessed
Virgin Mary. Copies of the Book of the Exercises
of various periods and in different languages are exhibited
on the altar.
The side niches no longer contain the mahogany statues
of St Francis Xavier and Peter Faber, also by Saturnino
López, which are now in the Hall of Honor of the
Tower-House.
The other show-cases contain a selection of chests of bronze,
made in 1912 by Granda for
the “Chapel of the Relics” on the second floor
of the Tower-House.
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