sentences:  Santa Cecília did not accept this new situation, so Oliba decided to found the monastery of Santa Maria in the place where there was an old hermitage of the same name (1025).As of 1082, Santa Maria became an abbot of her own and ceased to depend on the abbot of Ripoll.This hermitage had become the most important of all those that existed in the mountain thanks to the statue of the Virgin that was venerated in it since 880.