ONAH. - A small town in the diocese and province of Burgos (Spain), seat of the monastery of St. Saviour, founded in 1011 by the count of Castile and his wife Doña Urraca.

King Sancho of Navarre brought the Cluniac Benedictines there. The best-known abbot was St. Íñigo (Eneco), canonized at O. by faculty granted by Alexander III. The elegant Gothic cloister was completed by the abbot Alonso of Madrid in 1508. In the artistic mausoleum located in the crossing of the monumental church rest the remains of four counts and four kings of Castile. Since

1880 the monastery of O. has been a Jesuit scholasticate with a faculty of philosophy and theology. Fathers Antonio M. Arregui, Blas Beraza and Juan Urráburu taught there, and the Estudios Onenses are published there. - See plate VII.

Plate VII (by cartena of p. Sparroquiere) EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR OF THE GOTHIC CLOISTER finished in 1508 by abbot Alonso of Madrid.

Plate VII (by cartena of p. Sparroquiere) EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR OF THE GOTHIC CLOISTER finished in 1508 by abbot Alonso of Madrid.

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BIBL.: J. Alamo, Colección diplomática de S. Salvador de O. (1822-24), Madrid 1950; N. Arzallus, El monasterio de O., Burgos 1950.

Ignazio Iparraguirre

@incollection{ec9_ona, author = {Iparraguirre, Ignazio}, title = {Ona}, booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica}, volume = {IX}, pages = {125}, note = {Cited by column}, publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico}, address = {Città del Vaticano}, year = {1952}, url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/ona} }

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