Since the times of the second Cardinal de Bourbon Senior Esteban Luna had been gardener of the Cathedral, by the right that seemed firmly established in his family.

Who was the first Luna that entered the service of the Holy Metropolitan Church?
As the gardener asked himself this question he smiled complacently, raising his eyes to heaven, as though he would inquire of the immensity of space.

The Lunas were as ancient as the foundations of the church; a great many generations had been born in the abode in the upper cloister, and even before the illustrious Cisneros built the Claverias the Lunas had lived in houses adjacent, as though they could not exist out of the shadow of the Primacy.

To no one did the Cathedral belong with better right than to them.

Canons, beneficiaries, archbishops passed; they gained the appointment, died, and others came in their places.