Altarpiece relief, San Juan de las Abadesas, Catalonia, Spain

Christ saving the souls of the damned in hell, detail from a modern alabaster altarpiece, at the Monestir Sant Joan de les Abadesses, in San Juan de las Abadesas, Ripolles, Catalonia, Spain. The monastery was founded in 885 by Guifre el Pilos, or count Wilfred the Hairy, originally as a female monastery, for his daughter Emma. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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LC21_SPAIN_MC_0582.jpg

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© Manuel Cohen

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