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reconstruction and recommended that the building be completed in such a way that the original project was not changed. Thus, slowly because of the lack of money that the
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This work goes very long with having been able to finish the damage that Drake did in space of a year, and to walk in six years that the damage was done and now closely to be finished and God knows when it is finished, With very great detriment of the edified that is destroyed everything with the
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for each day he worked in the construction, allowing him to simultaneously exercise that position with the other activities of his office. In turn, Hernando
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arrived as the new bishop, who sends a letter to the King, dated May 25 of that year, where he describes something about the cult in the cathedral, among which he says: "There are no rations or half rations, no choirboys, but a clever sacristan and two sacristan waiters who serve the altar in a
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and reeds", and was located in the block that is behind the present cathedral, with front on the street calle del
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construction of the second cathedral temple was carried out, realized in wood and of thatched ceiling, because were difficult times and it did not have many resources, but was more solid than the previous one. From this second temple, a modest trace is preserved in the
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waters and with much offense of those that we enter in the church raining all it and they do not take advantage of prayers and warnings, take advantage of the money and to spend itself in salaries of majors and on shelves and it is not done nothing"
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