The Mistery of Belicena Villca Tharsis " ; the Odiel and Tinto rivers as " typical of the country and necessary to define the scene "; etc .; and , finally , they included the image of the Wise Sword " as an expression of the Lady , then the Virgen de la Gruta , to whom the Knights of Tharsis were consecrated ”; on the blade , the Heralds recorded the War Cry of the Lords of Tharsis : " Honor et Mortis ". The next King of Castile and León , Sancho IV , reinstated the region of Huelva to the Crown of Castile and installed as Lord , Don Juan Mate de Luna , but he assimilated the title and the Arms of the House of Tharsis to that Kingdom . As we will see shortly , the County of Tarseval , victim of great mortality years before , was then enfeoffed by a Catalan Knight , who had ceded rights to his flourishing Mediterranean County in exchange for those distant Andalusian regions .
More than a century had passed since Bera and Birsha commanded the Golen to execute two missions : fulfill the sentence of extermination that weighed on the Cathars and build a Templar Castle in Aracena . The first " mission ", as it turned out , was carried out with care by the Golen Cistercians ; on the second , however , nothing had been advanced yet . While Ferdinand III the Saint reconquered Seville in 1248 , and his son Alfonso X the Wise seizes the Algarve and Huelva in 1258 , King Sancho II of Portugal , shortly before dying in 1248 , conquered Aracena , a place that became part of the Crown of Castile in 1252 . It is presumable , then , the haste with which the Templars acted from the moment the square of Huelva was reconquered . Already in 1259 they had obtained a certificate from Alfonso X that authorized " to occupy a property in the Sierra de Aracena and fortify it conveniently , for the purpose of harboring and defending a garrison of 200 Knights ". However , years before such a document was issued , the Templars had located Odiel ' s Cave , drawn up the plans , and excavated the foundations of the Castle . The entire Sierra de Aracena was for several years under Templar control , including the town of Aracena and several smaller villages . But the members of the Chosen People who accompanied the Templars in the enterprise , did not come to an unknown place : the name of Aracena , in effect , comes from the Hebrew root Arai which means mountains , Arunda being the mountainous , synonymous with Aracena . This curious etymology has nothing mysterious if you think that the village was founded by Jewish merchants who traveled with the Phoenicians during the occupation of Tarshish , 1000 years before the current Age ; later it was called Arcilasis by Ptolemy ; Arcena by the Greeks ; and Vriato , who resisted the Roman legions there , called it Erisana . For the Arabs it was Dar Hazen and , because of the horrible food that the Saracens made when the Christians took the town by surprise , the Moorish Caracena .
Starting in 1259 , troops were dispatched to Aracena from many squares in Spain and even in France , so that during the construction of the Castle remained camped 2,000 Knights assisted by 3,000 servant brothers . Those forces were distributed around the Hills and exercised rigorous vigilance to prevent nearby residents from Cortegana , Almonaster la Real , Zalamea la Real , or other cities , could get closer and observe the works . The Companions of Solomon , the Freemason Guild controlled by the Cistercian , concurred at the request of the Grand Master because , although the Order of the Temple had its own division specialized in military constructions , " this " fortress would have something different . First , it must have a great church ; and secondly , that church would have to have a secret entrance that communicated its naves with the underground Cave : thus , the contest of the College of Temple Builders was essential .
The College entrusted the building of the church to Master Pedro Millán . This was authorized by the fierce Golen Pope Alexander IV , the same who in those moments excommunicated Manfred of Swabia and sought the extermination of the Hohenstaufen and the ruin of the Ghibelline party , to consecrate the church to the cult of the Virgen Dolorosa ( Virgin of Sorrows ). Such invocation , of course , was not accidental but obeyed Golen ' s plan to replace the Virgin of Agartha , the Divine Atlantean Mother of Navutan , for a Jewish Virgin Mary , who wept , shaken her Heart of Fire for the pain of the crucifixion of her son Jesus : the Virgin of Agartha , on the contrary , did not
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