Cantiga 57 "Mui grandes noit' e dia"

Esta es cómo Santa María hizo que sanasen los ladrones que habían quedado tullidos porque robaron a una dama y sus acompañantes que iban de romería a Montserrat. "Muchas gracias debemos dar, noche y día, a Santa María, porque defiende a los suyos de daños y, sin embargo, los guía a salvo." Y de esto queremos decir un milagro preciado, porque sabemos que habrán de escucharlo los que aman a la Virgen Santa, porque quebranta siempre a los soberbios y a los buenos levanta y les da entendimiento y el Paraíso con toda alegría. En Montserrat la Virgen hizo un prodigio que muy lejos resuena, así Ella me ayude, por una buena señora que, en aquella montaña, muy grande y extraña, bajó a una fuente, con toda su compañía, para comer y, desués de descansar, seguir su camino. Cuando estaban comiendo al lado de aquel monte, corriendo hacia ellos, Raimundo, un caballero ladrón y guerrero que, de cuanto traían, no dejó dinero que no les robase y cogiese, con su cuadrilla. La dueña, en cuanto fue robada, marchó con su gente, muy triste y angustiada, y a Montserrat llegó en seguida la desgraciada, dando grandes gritos: "Virgen Santa, Reina, véngame, porque fui afrentada en tu romería." Los frailes salieron, a las voces que daba y, cuando esto oyeron, el prior cabalgaba corriendo, con premura; pasó un repecho y vio, al lado de la fuente, una gran turba de ladrones que yacían maltrechos, ciegos y contrahechos, que ninguno se ponía en pie. Entre esos ladrones vio yacer a un villano, de aquellos malhechores, con una pierna de gallina, fiambre que había sacado, con hambre, de una empanada y que, bajo su capa, quisiera haber comido, pero que no pudiera, porque Dios no quería. Ya que se la atravesó desde el momento en que trató de comerla, que no podía echarla para dentro ni para fuera, ni comerla ni pasarla; además yacía ciego y mudo, sin habla y muy maltrecho por lo hecho, que bien lo merecía. El prior y los frailes luego que así hallaron a los ladrones maltrechos por sus maldades, mandaron que fuesen llevados, atravesados en las bestias que trajeron, y puestos ante el altar, para que allí muriesen o sanasen, si a Dios placía. Y después que trajeron a los ladrones ante el altar, hicieron por ellos oraciones y plegarias. Y pronto tuvieron sanos ojos, pies y manos, y, por ello, juraron que nunca más robarían a cristianos y se apartarían de aquella locura. This is how Holy Mary cured the thieves who were maimed because they robbed a lady and her company who were going on a pilgrimage to Montserrat. "We should constantly give great thanks to Holy Mary because She defends Her own from harm and leads them unerringly to safety." Concerning thins, we wish to tell a precious miracle, for we know that it will be heard by those whom Holy Mary loves. She humbles the proud and favors the virtuous and gladly gives them wisdom and Paradise. In Montserrat, the Virgin performed a miracle of great renown, may She come to my aid. It was for a good lady who, in the vast and eerie mountains there, came down to a spring with all her company to take refreshment and rest before continuing on their way. While they were eating beside that spring, Reimundo, a warlike robber knight, rushed out upon them from the woods. There was not a single money of all that the pilgrims carried with them that he and his band did not steal. After she was robbed, the lady immediately left the place with her people, sad and afflicted. The poor woman soon arrived at Montserrat, crying: "Holy Virgin Queen, grant me vengeance, for I suffered outrage on your pilgrimage." The friars ran out in response to her cries. When they heard what had happened, the prior mounted his horse and hastily rode off. He rounded a bend and saw a great band of robbers lying beside the spring, beaten, blind, and stiff. Not one could arise. In the midst of these robbers he saw lying there one of the most vicious of the rascals with a chicken leg in his hand. He had taken the cold morsel out of a pasty and was about to eat it under the cover of his cape. However, he could not, for God prevented it. It had gotten stuck in his mouth when he began to eat it and he could not get it out nor shove it in, and so he could neither chew it nor swallow it. Furthermore, he lay there blinded and dumb and badly bruised because of that punishment he well deserved. The prior and his friars, when they found the thieves in that sorry state because of their misdeeds, had them removed from the place at once. They threw them over the backs of beasts they had brought and piled them in front of the altar to die or recover, as God so willed. After they brought the thieves to the altar, they said prayers and supplications for them. Soon their eyes, feet, and hands were healed. For this, they all swore that they would never more rob Christians and would abandon their sinful ways. Performers: Alla Francesca