Santiago riding down the waves

[Lydia Banales]

That's closer to the story I heard. Lydia

Rosina Lila wrote:

> I think that the (apocryphal) legend says that as the boat with the
> remains of Saint James was approaching the Galician shores, a groom
> was riding to his own wedding in full regalia; when the
> husband-to-be's horse glimpsed the (stone) boat on the waves carrying
> St. James remains from Palestine the horse couldn't contain his
> pure-of-heart impulses and jumped into the water after the stone boat,
> rider and all.  Eventually, both horse and rider surfaced, all covered
> with scallop and other shells....(hence the symbolic vieyra), but the
> horse's rider  wasn't Santiago; it was an incidental fellow on his way
> to his own wedding waylaid by a very spiritual horse.


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