In Santa Maria da Franqueira (Galicia, North of Spain) an image of
the Virgin is kept. The legend tells it was hidden when the muslims
conquered the visigothic kingdom; it was miraculously found some centuries
later. People decided to built a shrine; they put the image on a car led by
oxen and where the animals stopped they built the sanctuary. Once a year a
feast remembers this legend. Btw, the image chronology is c. 1343.
Carlos
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