The original Catedral de San Juan was destroyed by a hurricane in 1526; the present building was begun in 1540. It was looted by by the British in 1598 and badly damaged by another hurricane in 1615. The building underwent a major restoration in 1917.
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Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.
The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung. Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.
john northbrooke, c. 1570
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