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That's closer to the story I heard. Lydia<br>
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Rosina Lila wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid15c.277d2930.2ceed4daaaol.com"><font
face="arial,helvetica"><font size="3" family="SANSSERIF"
face="Franklin Gothic Medium" lang="0">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. </font></font></blockquote>
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