This was the place where the remains of Abbot mothers rested. Only they had the privilege of being buried here.

                    

It is in this crypt that we connect with the great Colombian writer, the Nobel Prize for Literature Gabriel García Márquez. In 1949, during his time as a journalist for the local newspaper El Universal, Gabo was given the task of covering the news of the exhumation of the remains of the crypt and it was then that he was surprised when he discovered the remains of a girl with a hair so long that it was necessary to take a meter to measure it, and 22 meters and 11 centimeters long (72.5 feet). Surprised by what he was witnessing, García Márquez recalled a legend that his grandmother told him, about a Marchioness of only 12 years old who, after her death, had exaggeratedly grown her hair for 200 years. This fact inspired him to write his novel "Del amor y otros demonios", which is recreated on the stages of the old convent.