Friday, 3 April 2015

Day 9 - ...and in that church is a chook! Quite a story to this, read on..


The hen & rooster miracle: Legend tells of a German pilgrim called Hugonell who was walking to Santiago with his parents, when they decided to rest at an inn in Santo Domingo. The owner of the inns daughter placed a silver cup into his luggage and accused him of theft because he did not reciprocate her advances. He was to be hanged but miraculously survived, it was a miracle. The mayor who was having dinner "that boy is as alive as these 2 roast chickens we are about to eat when suddenly the chickens came to life. From the 15th century a hen and rooster have been kept alive inside the cathedral.


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