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MONASTERY OF SANTA MARIA DE OZON

Although there is no documented evidence about the history of its foundation, there are some people who attribute it to the Fathers of the Bieito Order of Santa Maria of Tosto, in the parish of Xaviña (Camariñas) who, after the difficulties which they had to endure there due to the constant lootings, decided to move to Ozon where they built the monastery.

The first known documents where the existence of this monastery is mentioned are from the XIV century. The first of them, from 1302, refers to the will of Friar San Juan who, in the process of taking his vows, left 200 "sueldos" (an old coin no longer used) to this monastery of Ozon. The second document is the 1334 will of Doña Leonor Gonzalez, wife of Luis Soga de Lobera, which is kept in the "Tumbo" (tomb) of St. Xusto de Toxosoutos (Lausame) where is told that she makes firm the previous donation made to the monastery of Ozon in return for the Brothers' prayer for her soul.

The remains of the old monastery are few. Between the south wall of the current church and the garden wall of the rectory there is a passage which ends in a beautiful ogival arch where the entrance to the old monastery was. This same southern wall has a walled in arch of the same characteristics as the previous one, where the door which joined the monastery to the church was. The part of the building nearest to the church, where today the rectory is, still has the old wine press where the monks made wine. On the façade of this building there are some gargoyles together with a window from the manastery's cloister, incrusted in the wall.