Santo Domingo de la Calzada
DONDE CANTO LA GALLINA DESPUÉS
DE ASADA
The Miracle of the Cock and
Hen
A couple and their teenage son were on pilgrimage
to Santiago and stopped for the night at an inn in Santo Domingo. A girl
working at the inn grew enamored of the son and propositioned him, but
was rebuffed. In revenge, she secreted a silver goblet in his pack, then
accused him of theft. He was captured, tried, convicted, sentenced and
hanged, all in the space of a day.
The next day, as his sorrowful parents left
the city, they passed the field were his body was still hanging, and they
heard him whisper, "Mother, Father, I'm still alive! Santo Domingo is holding
my feet up." They ran back to the city and rushed to the magistrate as
he sat down to dinner, shouting of the miracle. The magistrate mocked them,
saying that their son was as dead as the roast cock and hen on the table
in front of him.
At which point, naturally, the cock and hen
leaped up and began to crow. And ever since, in commemoration of this miracle,
a cock and hen have been kept in an alcove of the cathedral.
on
Camino Frances
Roncesvalles
