Cañas is a municipality of La Rioja, Spain. It was the birthplace of Saint Dominic of Silos (1000–1073).
The abbey of Santa María de San Salvador de Cañas for Cistercian nuns was founded in this town by Lope Díaz I de Haro and his wife Aldonza in 1169 and 1170.Ghislain Baury, Les religieuses de Castille. Patronage aristocratique et ordre cistercien, XIIe-XIIIe siècles, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012 Its wealth and power culminated during the 13th century under the abbess Urraca Díaz de Haro, between 1222 and 1262.Ghislain Baury, "Sainteté, mémoire et lignage des abbesses cisterciennes de Castille au XIIIe s. La comtesse Urraca de Cañas (av. 1207-1262)", Anuario de Estudios Medievales, 2011, vol. 41, n° 1, pp. 151-182, http://estudiosmedievales.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosmedievales/article/view/340/344. The nuns benefited from the patronage of the Haro family until its extinction in 1322.Ghislain Baury, "Patronage et gestion des domaines chez les cisterciennes castillanes. Les fausses quittances de Cañas (1298-1302)", Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses, t. 59, fasc. 3-4 (2008), págs. 237-252. The community is still active today and retains fragments of its medieval library, particularly a complete Burgundian antiphonary from around 1200, and a Castilian missal from 1267 to 1279.Ghislain Baury, "Une bibliothèque médiévale de moniales cisterciennes en Castille. Cañas et les membra disjecta de son missel", Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses, t. 61, fasc. 2-4 (2010), págs. 141-183.
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Notable people Dominic of Silos, saint in the Catholic Church.
Points of interest
Monastery of Santa María Parish church of the Assumption Saint Mary Hermitage
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