MoZa SaNTa HouSe
A PRoPHeTeSS WHo MaDe HiSToRy
Sequeros is the birthplace of a key character in the history of the Sierra de Francia: Juana Hernández, also known as the Prophetess or the Moza Santa(the Saint Maiden). She was born here in the early 15th century. Back then, this street was in the area known as "La Mata de los Judíos" (The Jew's Bush) and, although it is not certain, it is believed she might have belonged to a converted Jewish family, that was popularly known as "new Christians".
The legend goes that Juana died in 1424 and, when they were going to take her away to bury her, she woke up to announce the messages she had received from heaven, among them, the existence of a carved statue of Our Lady that had been buried for over two hundred years in a spot of the Peña de Francia. Some time later, it was the Virgin herself who visited the French student Simón Roland, to ask him to find the statue which he eventually found in a cave in 1434. And thus was born the local devotion to Our Lady of the Peña de Francia mountain.