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Cantiga 46 "Porque ajan de seer"

This is how a statue of Holy mary, which a Moor kept respectfully in his house, gave milk from its breasts. "So that the miracles of the Virgin may be more widely known, She performs them before incredulous men." It chanced to pass, as I wish to tell you now, that a Moor, as I learned, went to the Holy Land with a great army to make war on Christians and pillage their lands, for they were unprepared. That Moor laid waste all the lands he could enter and carried off all he could steal. He triumphantly returned to his own land and piled together the booty he has taken to distribute it. Of that wealth which he divided, he set aside for himself a statue of the Peerless Virgin, which caught his eye. After he had examined it closely, he had it set up in a high place and dressed in garments of spun gold. He often went to gaze upon it and thought it over and reasoned to himself that he simply could not believe that God would become incarnate nor be born of woman. "All who will believe this are mistaken." he said, "for I cannot imagine that God would undertake such suffering nor so debase Himself that He Who is so great would clothe Himself in flesh and walk among common folk, as they say He walked, in order to save the world. However, if He would make one of His manifestations to me, He would cause me to become a Christian at once and be confirmed along with these bearded Moors." The Moor had scarcely uttered this when he saw the statue's two breasts turn into living flesh and begin to flow with milk in gushing streams. When he saw this, verily he began to weep and had a priest called in who baptized him. Afterward, without fail, he had all his followers become Christians as well as many of his other acquaintances.