 St. Mary, the mother of Jesus, is the patronress of the friary, and a small statue of her can be found in the friary church.Carved in alabaster, the statue is, stylistically, of the school of fourteenth-century Andalucian art.According to a legend with scant historical basis, this image was brought back from one of his trips by a sailor from Palos de la Frontera and, because the Moors were still in Spain, it was hidden by submerging it off the Huelva coast.