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The alleged finding of human remains designated San Geronimo in 1853 afforded striking confirmation of an incident recorded by a Spanish Benedictine named Diego de Haëdo who published a topography of Algeria in 1612. Haëdo sets forth the legend that a young Arab who had embraced Christianity and had been baptized with the name of Geronimo had been captured by a Moorish corsair in 1569 and taken to Algiers.

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