The remains of Calderon, which were believed lost, could be sandwiches in a church of Madrid

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This story starts at mid of the last century, with a priest dying of name is today unknown, and a secret revealed.

—The remains of Calderon have not disappeared.

refers, of course, Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681), whose mortal remains had a life eventful, and tragic, at turns by Madrid, and which until now were thought to be ash, dust, nothing.

The writer he was buried first in the church of San Salvador, as he had left it in writing. In 1842, however, the poor state of the building meant that, his remains were transferred to the cemetery of the Sacramental de San Nicolás, where they remained for 29 years, when with the Sexenio Democratic they decided to move to San Francisco

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