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Re: Santiago's Gate
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lugnet.castle
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Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:56:40 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Juan Cuello wrote:
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From the year of 711 to 1492 AC, the Spanish Christians were involved in a
‘particular’ crusader over the Moors called ‘La Reconquista’..... For more
than 700 years they battle over the Moors and sometimes over themselves to win
the ‘control’ of all Spain and overseas.
Trujillo was taken by Moors. It’s an impregnable fortified bastion. This
added to the great courage and military knowledge of the Moors ‘meens’ that
the Christians had very difficult to re-taken the village..... It’s told that
then the image of Santiago (patron saint of Spanish Christians) appears upon
the gate.... This help the Christians to cheer up and lead them to the
victory....
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Hi Juan,
this is a great MOC and a perfect Timing: I just came home yesterday from my
pilgram’s way to Santiago de Compostella. The Image of Santiago (I think it’s
St.James in english) you described above that appeard from heaven shows him on
a white horse slaughtering the Moor. A sculpture of this appearance is shown in
the cathedral of Santiago de Compostella:
Santiago ‘helped’ not only to reconquer the city but all of Spain. His remains
are said to be buried in Santiago de Compostella. His grave is now the third
biggest destination of christian pilgrams just after Jerusalem and Rome. What
a surprise to find your fantastic model after 5 weeks of travelling on this
historic route. ->dö
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| Hi everybody.....again..... This weekend seems to be a great weekend to build some lego castles, so here it's another MOC I'm very proud of it.... The Santiago's Gate is based on a real Gate that allow access to the old village of Trujillo, located (...) (21 years ago, 12-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle) !!
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