Najera San Domingo de la Calzada
28 Km 40 Km Winds of breath throughout the day. The shadow of cloud scrolls to my side and past me, one after the other,
There are difficult times, the old haunt torments my mind and provoke in me the opposite of serenity, annoyance. I try to reason with him. In fact, my annoyance is that the situation is out of my contrôle.Je have to accept: to accept what you can not change and live the present moment. I have often thought that when you live in the moment, it is very difficult to be tormented. The torment of the past or the future but not now. Fortunately, because the moment is still with us until the end of our lives, just find it to be better.
I meet a flock of 200 sheep led by a shepherd and his dog, looks like a king with his court. This is the first time in my life I met a true shepherd. He looks happy, he smiles and greets me by sending me your hand. His valiant dog busy bringing the lost sheep do not even notice my presence.
Reality TV is now doing shows on the pilgrimage. A group of English pilgrims are filmed by a local television station. They host the same house as the others, question de faire plus réalité… Évidemment, ils sont tous jeunes et beaux, ont les meilleurs lits et disposent d’une camionnette taxi pour les sorties en ville.
Claude et moi pouffons de rire à regarder le spectacle. La caméra suit les moindres de leurs gestes. Claude dit :
— C’est quoi ça, ils vont filmer le Saint-Esprit maintenant ?
Je le regarde un instant puis j’ajoute :
— Ne vous en faites pas avec ça, Claude, le Saint-Esprit, ils vont le mettre en postproduction.
C'est dans la cathédrale de Santo Domingo de la Calzada, qu’on expose une poule et un coq blancs dans une cage pour se remémorer the famous miracle.
Tradition says that this 14th century, a young pilgrim traveling family had been unjustly hanged for theft by the fault of a servant jealous revenge for the pilgrim's indifference towards her, she hid a cup money in the wallet of the young man. Despite his protestations of innocence, the poor Hogonell was convicted and hanged on the spot.
Concerned delay Hugonell, his parents returned to Santo Domingo where, miraculously, they heard their son that he was still alive because the protected St. Jacques. They rushed to the judge for tell the wonder. Incredulous, he responded that he would think if the rooster and the chicken roasts, he was about to eat, began to sing. What did the birds jumped quickly from the flat.
There is also a children's book that tells the legend of a very different way. This story tells how the young Hugonell was saved from a deadly disease when he was 5 years. Her mother, thank God, decided to give each year its biggest chicken and its biggest cock in the poorest person she knew. The father thought that this sacrifice was insufficient and decided to bring his entire family on a pilgrimage to Compostela. En route to Santiago, they halted at an inn in the town of Santa Domingo. The maid hid the silver cup in the bag of the young pilgrim. The police arrested him and seized Hugonell all such property, including the chicken and the rooster he was carrying. Hugonell was accused of theft and sentenced to death. The judge delivered his verdict after having asked her maid to cook the chicken and the cock of the young convict. The maid kept it for Poultry Hugonell cook and made the place a hen and a cock so big.
When parents noticed their son was following them over, they returned to the village where they learned that their son was sentenced to death. They went to the judge asking for mercy. The judge said, "that their son was as alive as the young hen he was about to eat!". It is at this precise moment, the hen and rooster, the German couple escaped cooking and sight singing ... Amazed, the judge decided to give more credibility to the version of young German and the girl brought back for questioning. The girl overcome with remorse that she had confessed her even hid the silver vase. The judge therefore acquitted the young Hugonell.
I prefer by far the second version because it reflects more of the magic of life. It's the chicken and the rooster that the mother of a young Hugonell transported from Germany that saved his son for the second time. These same chickens she gave to the poor to thank God.
Back at the hostel, a Spaniard, proclaimed "loud" in English his admiration for me. All pilgrims, fifteen, watching me. I think it refers to walking in the mud I had made in Logrono. I do not understand his speech that the phrase "Here, a true pilgrim! "I'm embarrassed I smile, I greet them and I'm going to bed.
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