Basílica de San Juan de Dios
Gilded basilica built over the tomb of a saint once locked up as a madman before founding hospitals.
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This guide to the Basílica de San Juan de Dios in Granada opens on a street nearby in 1538, when a soldier and book peddler named João Cidade broke down after hearing a sermon, tore his clothes, and was locked away as a lunatic in the Royal Hospital's ward for the insane. It follows what he witnessed there, and how it drove him, once released, to start carrying dying beggars home on his own back until a single rented house grew into five hospitals. The guide traces how a man Granada once tried to shut away began to be called a saint in his own lifetime.
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