From this town we rode through many wild and terrifying mountains to Guadaluppe [Guadalupe]. It is said that our Lady rested nowhere better than in the convent there. ¹ It belongs to the Order of St Jerome and there must be there altogether a total of 150 priests and 50 lay brothers. On the high altar in the church is a picture of our Lady with the Babe in her arms, before which St Gregory prayed. This was painted by St Luke. It is as lovely and serious a picture as can be seen anywhere. There is a countless stream of pilgrims throughout the year, and in the church are many chains with which the Christians were bound in heathen parts. Anyone who dedicated himself to this stately house of God and presented himself before the picture of our Lady was forthwith relieved of the chains with which he was bound. I think that the iron which was deposited by the prisoners could not be carried away in 200 carts. The convent is now powerful and rich beyond measure, and in it is a hospital which is ordered as follows. If a king, duke, count, nobleman, knight or page, rich or poor, falls sick and is taken in to the hospital, he receives due attendance according to his station and all that appertains thereto—his own chamber, page and maidservant, two sworn physicians and his apothecary. Each one, rich or poor, as his sickness requires, is 125waited on daily by the physicians, the apothecary, and the kitchen staff who serve him during his sickness, so that, as I think, he could not be waited on so well in his own house. And when he is well they return to him everything he brought in with him. If he lacks provision, he also receives assistance and pays nothing. If he dies, however, whatever he brought with him belongs to the hospital.