IN SPAIN
187
after two years resigned: he was a priest
and the King gave him the monastery of
S. Audito in the Buytrago hills, and Fer-
nandez Diaz of Avila ruled the whole
Order alone. Under him was founded the
Hospital of Santiago de los Caballeros in
Toledo; and other hospitals in Avila and
Talavera; likewise a convent of nuns, S.
Euphemia de Cozollos, which received also
the wives of knights who elected to live
celibate; this Ferdinand and Isabel re-
moved to S. Fe in Toledo, where tourists
may still remark the Cross of the Order.
Two years later the hospital in Cuenca
was founded and well dowered by Tel
Perez de Meneses, and D. Pedro Gutierrez;
likewise another in Alarcon; and the
same Tel Perez, lord of Meneses, founded
the hospital in Villamartin near Carrion.
The Order still accepted its original obli-
gation of the Works of Mercy and caring
for those along the Road: it kept too
its western affiliation and received the
gift of certain heritages in Noya, on
the blue tidal estuary of the Atlantic shore.
When Castile and Leon went to war, there
Men called
it S. Tuy
Hospitals
AND MONOGRAPHS
187
after two years resigned: he was a priest
and the King gave him the monastery of
S. Audito in the Buytrago hills, and Fer-
nandez Diaz of Avila ruled the whole
Order alone. Under him was founded the
Hospital of Santiago de los Caballeros in
Toledo; and other hospitals in Avila and
Talavera; likewise a convent of nuns, S.
Euphemia de Cozollos, which received also
the wives of knights who elected to live
celibate; this Ferdinand and Isabel re-
moved to S. Fe in Toledo, where tourists
may still remark the Cross of the Order.
Two years later the hospital in Cuenca
was founded and well dowered by Tel
Perez de Meneses, and D. Pedro Gutierrez;
likewise another in Alarcon; and the
same Tel Perez, lord of Meneses, founded
the hospital in Villamartin near Carrion.
The Order still accepted its original obli-
gation of the Works of Mercy and caring
for those along the Road: it kept too
its western affiliation and received the
gift of certain heritages in Noya, on
the blue tidal estuary of the Atlantic shore.
When Castile and Leon went to war, there
Men called
it S. Tuy
Hospitals
AND MONOGRAPHS