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The discovery of two coats of arms belonging to bishops from Cordoba –friar Diego de Mardones and friar Alonso de Medina y Salizanes- in the axial nave of the foundational Mosque of Abd al-Rahman I, with the occasion of the repair of the roof, has revealed the involvement of both prelates, which consists, by Mardones, in the elevation of a dome in the first section of the nave above the windproof door about 1617, while between 1679 and 1682 approximately Salizanes covered the rest of the nave with baroque hardle vaults. The only intention of both prelates was the exaltation of their personal power and their approval of the mistery of the Immaculate Conception, connecting this nave with the Redemption arch, the access to the transept of the cathedral where Mardones had participated and where his burial was and with the Immaculate’s Chapel, founded by Salizanes to house his tomb.
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