Every time Celina travels, she sents me a card. Last month she travelled from southern Portugal to northwest Spain, from where she sent this card with Our Lady of Cavadonga.
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The Virgin of Covadonga is an image of the Virgin Mary that can be seen in a cave in Covadonga, Principality of Asturias. She is the patroness of Asturias and one of the seven patrons of the autonomous communities of Spain. The cave is an important Marian shrine in Spain.
According to tradition, the Virgin helped the Christians captained by Don Pelayo, causing a collapse of stones during the Battle of Covadonga, which decimated the Arab army. This victory is legendarily regarded as the beginning of the Reconquest and the reintegration of the Christian kings on the Peninsula.
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