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Cañas is a municipality of
La Rioja
La Rioja () is an autonomous community and province in Spain, in the north of the Iberian Peninsula. Its capital is Logroño. Other cities and towns in the province include Calahorra, Arnedo, Alfaro, Haro, Santo Domingo de la Calzada, an ...
, Spain
, image_flag = Bandera de España.svg
, image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg
, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
. It was the birthplace of Saint Dominic of Silos (1000-1073).
The abbey of Santa María de San Salvador de Cañas for Cistercian nuns was founded in this town by Lope Díaz I de Haro and his wife Aldonza in 1169 and 1170. Its wealth and power culminated during the 13th century under the abbess Urraca Díaz de Haro, between 1222 and 1262. The nuns benefited from the patronage of the Haro family until its extinction in 1322. The community is still active today and retains fragments of its medieval library, particularly a complete Burgundian antiphonary
An antiphonary or antiphonal is one of the liturgical books intended for use (i.e. in the liturgical choir), and originally characterized, as its name implies, by the assignment to it principally of the antiphons used in various parts of the ...
from around 1200, and a Castilian missal from 1267 to 1279.Ghislain Baury, "Une bibliothèque médiévale de moniales cisterciennes en Castille. Cañas et les ''membra disjecta'' de son missel", ''Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses'', t. 61, fasc. 2-4 (2010), págs. 141-183.
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Notable people
*Dominic of Silos
Dominic of Silos, O.S.B., ( es, Santo Domingo de Silos) (1000 – 20 December 1073) was a Spanish monk, to whom the Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos, where he served as the abbot, is dedicated. He is revered as a saint in the Catholic Church. His ...
, saint in the Catholic Church.
Points of interest
Parish church of the Assumption
Saint Mary Hermitage
Notes
Municipalities in La Rioja (Spain) {{LaRiojaES-geo-stub