A GALICIAN LEGEND: SAN ERO. ( English )

The King Alfonso X tells us in the Troubadour poem to Santa Maria number 103 the miracle happened to the noble Ero, gentleman and later abbot Armenteira's Monastery. The legend concerns to the Celtic cycle of the stories on the Paradise, preserved in the oral traditions of Brittany, Cornwall, Wales, Galicia and Ireland. San Ero's legend of Armenteira is related also to those of the abbot Virila(Navarra-Spain) and the monk of Heisterbach. It is the classic theological one of the possessions of the eternity that had a wide literary repercussion in the western world, since it happened in Afflighem's Benedictine Flemish monastery among 1122-1195; or like in France, where there is about 1195 a translation of the bishop of Paris; or reproduced also in the year 1212 by Jacobo de la Vorágine.*SAN ERO´s LEGEND:Ero of Armenteira, Galician noble of the 12th century, had certain night a dream in which the Virgin they was saying so much to him as to his wife, with whom he did not have descent, which they were founding a monastery, in order that this way they had spiritual descent. So the noble Ero, master of these lands, got bored with the intrigues and basenesses of the mundane life, decided to devote to the prayer and penance in the sacred Castrove Mount and transformed one of his palaces into monastery founding Armenteira's Monastery, turning into his abbot.During his long stay in the monastery the abbot was wondering often on how it would be the Paradise and was requesting earnestly the Virgin who was allowing him to see it. This way so, one day, walking along the forests near to the monastery, Ero remained captivated for to sing of a nightingale and sat down to resting remaining slept under the branches of an oak being left to go for the delight in the arruyo of so beautiful singing. Giving return facing the monastery, the abbot had the impression of which that one was not the way for the one that was coming, but coming to the monastery, his surprise was maximum on having seen his former monastery turned into a more modern and big construction, in which also there were more monks. Bewildered and disconcerted, Ero went to a monk and expressed his confusion to him. A great confusion armed itself in the monastery until the most elderly monk, who heard speaking about the old man abuse Ero, came with a very old book and read before all the presents the following history: " San Ero of Armenteira, noble and pious male, founder and abbot of this monastery, who nevermore was seen after going out to ponder to the mount Castrove " The old abbot understood then that while he was left to take pleasure with the singing of the nightingale, were happening in the world approximately three hundred years. Satisfied of the miracle of Santa Maria on having showed him this way the paradise, San Ero praised this grace immediately to expire to the feet of the surprised monks. Since then there is celebrated in the field of Armenteira's Monastery the San's Holiday Ero and the Pilgrimage of the Heads in honor of Santa Maria. In this multitudinous Galician pilgrimage of action of thanks to the Virgin of the Heads, of miraculous properties to cure the migraines and other cranial ailments, the following thing is observed: - Procession of the image along the porch of the temple of Armenteira's monastery. - It is common to see the assistants carrying on their heads votive offerings with form of effigies. - The public inspectors present their devotion to the image, a nursing Virgin, she appears slightly commonly in the religious Galician iconography, similar to the Virgin of Riofrío's Milk (Mondariz-Pontevedra-GALICIA-Spain).** NOTA DE papigil. - Iste video tamén atópase dispoñible na Canle papigil co Texto adxunto escrito en Lingua Galega: "A LENDA DE SAN ERO".

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