ABSTRACT
Friar Maurice OFM is called Taraf al-Ghurab in Spanish Cape St Vincent, because there the body of St Vincent was found on the shore. From that place begins the land that according to the ancients is called Blessed but according to modern people is called Frontera, because it is the frontier of Christendom against the infidels and it is necessary to oppose strenuously the barbarian attacks there with a solid front. The town of silves (civitas Silvestris), the castle of Albufeira (Albuier), Faro (Sancta Maria del Faran), and afterwards Gades, that is, the island of Hercules, which is otherwise known as Cadiz (Kadis). In Tartus (Antrodo) within the main church is the chapel of the glorious Virgin, of wondrous beauty indeed though small, in which no outsiders are allowed to celebrate apart from bishops, Friars Minor and Preaching Friars.
