His Historia de la Isla y Catedral de Cuba is considered to be the most ancient historical essay of our country. There he gathers the transfer of the town, which of the northern coast wraped up between the rivers Tínima and Hatibonico. In this text he included the poem Espejo de Paciencia, and he saved for the posterity the work that many people consider to be the most ancient precedent of the Cuban literature.

The ecclesiastic life constitutes another material of head of researchers. From the urban point of view it turns out to be a jewel. His description of the city practically agrees with the plane of 1814, the most ancient known.

Also he reports the fictional of the life of the inhabitants, with the episodes of siege and capture of the city by the pirate Henry Morgan, in 1666; and a few years later, what generated the legend of the abduction of the Camagüeyans, by the filibuster Francois Grammont.

The bishop Morell de Santa Cruz visited Puerto Príncipe between 1755 and 1757. His remarks attribute to this ground a relevancy at level of the Spanish colonial empire: “(...) á excpeción de la Habana, no hai Pueblo alguno en la Isla que le  exceda, ni aun le iguale”.

One of the tests of its utility emerges of the pages of the book La luz perenne: la cultura en Puerto Príncipe  (1514-1898), volume published in 2013 by the publishing houses Ácana and Oriente, for the celebration of the 500 anniversary of Camagüey.

Prestigious intellectuals as Dr. Cs. Luis Álvarez Álvarez, Doctor in Sciences Lourdes Gómez Consuegra and the M.Sc. Elda Cento Gómez comes often to the bishop Morell de Santa Cruz, in their incessant exercise for unraveling certain puzzles about this ground.

Attending the legacy of bishop Morell de Santa Cruz is possible, as ensures the Álvarez Álvarez, because the culture is also a space of conservation, creation and transmission of spiritual values.

Translated by BA in English Language, Manuel Barrera Téllez

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