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assigned the hospital of Lima an income of 3,000 crowns. The
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were also the objects of his solicitude and at the principal gates of the city he founded two hermitages, or chapels, wherein religious of his community begged, so that masses might be celebrated for the souls of the deceased. Betancur himself would travel the streets at night ringing a bell and
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with the masons. The institution was placed under the patronage of Our Lady of
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