13 April 2010

Nazaré

The story is of a foggy morning, eight hundred years back in time. Knight Dom Fuas Rouphino, was pursuing a stag. All of a sudden, his game disappeared at the edge of a cliff. Rouphino who was close behind, heard in alarm the waves lapping below. Only a miracle could save. And it was a miracle that did happen.

At the very edge of the cliff his horse came to a sudden halt. Convinced that the Virgin of Nazaré had come to his aid Rouphino raised a chapel on the site. But, I do not think that any divine intervention was necessary. The spontaneous beauty, of the sight that spread below would root anyone to the spot.