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Cantar de Mio Cid, (English: “Song of My Cid”, ) also called Poema De Mio Cid, Spanish epic poem of the mid-12th century, the earliest surviving monument of Spanish literature and generally considered one of the great medieval epics and one of the masterpieces of Spanish literature. The poem tells of the fall from royal favour and the eventual vindication of the Castilian 11th-century noble and military leader Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (1043–99), popularly known as the Cid, who became Spain’s national hero. The original manuscript of the poem, believed to have been composed about 1140, h...
The community of Trappist monks of the monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña in Burgos, Spain. / Photo credit: Archdiocese of BurgosDenver Newsroom, Aug 9, 2022 / 04:00 am (CNA).On Aug. 6 in the year 953, 200 monks living at the monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña in Burgos, Spain, were put to death, martyred by Muslim troops. From that time until the end of the 15th century, the flooring at their place of martyrdom turned red with blood once a year.The prodigious event was repeated until a few years before the Reconquista (Reconquest) in 1492 with the final surrender of the Muslims holding out in...
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