Manresa

/ manˈrɛsa /

noun

1. a city in NE Spain: contains a cave used as the spiritual retreat of St Ignatius Loyola. Pop: 67 269 (2003 est)

Example Sentences

The church at Manresa is said to have been commenced in the same year, 1328; and it is extremely similar in all respects to Sta.

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Seldom elsewhere shall we see the old columns for the curtains at the side of the altar still standing as they do at Manresa.

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At Manresa he practised the strictest asceticism, hoping to become in heart and soul fitted for the saint life he wished to live.

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Ribbons are made of floss-silk at Toledo, where there are about twelve looms, and at Manresa, where there is a greater number.

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He was thirty-one years of age, when he betook himself, after his night's vigil, to the cave of Manresa.

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