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| CSM Number : 141 | |||
| Short name: | The Old Monk whose Youth was Restored | Alternative: | Old Monk Restored to Youth |
| Incipit: | Quen muit’ onrrar o nome da Sennor conprida | ||
| Refrain: | Quen muit’ onrrar o nome da Sennor conprida/ dar-ll-á en este mundo e no outro vida. | ||
| Summary of narrative | |||
| Setting: | unspecified | Protagonist(s): | a monk |
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A monk always fell to his knees and kissed the ground when the Virgin’s name was mentioned. He began to age and his limbs grew weak. When he fell to the ground, he could no longer get up again. The abbot instructed two other monks to watch over and assist the elderly one. One day, when he was kneeling alone, the old monk fell to the ground. He called on the Virgin to help him. The Virgin raised him up and told him that if he kissed the altar his old age would disappear. The monk kissed the altar cloth and his youth was restored. He looked like a man of twenty and the abbot and the monks did not recognise him. The Virgin made the monks recognise him so that word of her compassion would be spread. |
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| Metrical data | |||
| Stanza: | 12' 12' 12' 12' | Refrain: | 12' 12' |
| No. of Stanzas: | 10 | ||
| Rhyme scheme: | AA | bbba | Zejel: | Yes |
| MS locations: | |||
| T141, E141 | |||
| Poncelet reference | |||
| Legitur in miraculis B.V. quod fuit quidam monachus, qui summe (1007) | |||
| Keywords | |||
| abbot, altar, altarcloth, apparition, Ave Maria (saying of), kissing, monks, name (of Virgin Mary), old age | |||
| Discography | |||
| Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | |||
| Miracle | Collection | ||
| Old Monk Restored to Youth | Jean Gobi |
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| BITAGAP ID | |||
| 3893 | |||
| Bibliography | |||
| La música de las Cantigas de Santa María del rey Alfonso el Sabio. Facsímil, transcripción y estudio crítico vol. III Anglés, Higinio | |||
| Un recull de miracles de Santa Maria, procedent de Ripoll, i les Cantigues d’Alfons el Savi Baraut i Obiols, Cebrià | |||
| The Early Seguidilla Clarke, Dorothy Clotelle | |||
| Viejos, viejas y alcahuetas. Consideraciones acerca de la vejez en las Cantigas de Santa María Fidalgo, Elvira | |||
| A Note on King Alfonso’s Use of Popular Themes in his Cantigas Keller, John Esten | |||
| O Livro dos Milagres da Bem-aventurada Virgem Maria Martins, Mário | |||
| Fonti e contesti dei miracoli eucaristici delle Cantigas de Santa María 128 e 208 Negri, Manuel | |||
| Las Cantigas del Rey Sabio Valera, Juan | |||