interestingly the only mention i can find of a monastery loquarium is (rendered "loquorium") in "the california padres and their mission" by charles francis saunders and joseph smeaton chase, a book in the public domain:
The Mission relics at Santa Inés are many and interesting.
Besides those used in the present-day church services, and the
beautiful old vestments that are in the sacristy, there is a
considerable collection arranged for interested visitors in an
interior room of the convento — a room formerly used as the
loquorium, where daily, after dinner and after supper, the
friars were at liberty to come to rest for an hour from their
laboring and praying, and relax in human chat.
the next paragraph also mentions this room now housing relics "patiently got together from all sorts of places," including "from the earth of the surrounding fields as the plough turns it up"
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