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Its ecclesiastical history is uninteresting or, rather, the city possesses no ecclesiastical past; perhaps that is one of the causes of its flourishing state to-day. In the thirteenth century the monastical Church of San Emeterio was raised to a collegiate and in 1775 to a bishopric. The same unimportance, from an art point of view, attaches itself to the cathedral church.
At that time a monastery surrounded by a few miserable huts seems to have been all that was left of the Roman seaport; this monastery was dedicated to the martyr saints Emeterio and Celedonio, for it was, and still is, believed that they perished here, and not in Calahorra, as will be seen later on.
The names of these two martyr saints were Emeterio and Celedonio, who, as we have seen, are worshipped in Santander; besides, they are also the patron saints of Calahorra. The first Bishop of Calahorra took possession of his see toward the middle of the fifth century; his name was Silvano. Near by, and in a vale leading to the south from the Ebro, the Moors built a fortress and called it Nájera.
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