| Mare de Deú de Lluc,"La Moreneta".Account the legend, that little after the reconquest, when the christians, commanded for the James I king, achieved snatch Majorca to the Islam, an Arab marriage had to give your farm, put in the high thing of saws it of Tramuntana, to the new misters.To survive, not took a long time in embracing the Christian faith and baptize also to your children.One of them, the Lluc, Luke child, took charge of it takes to the |momtañas| the flock of goats and ewes of your father in order that they fed there.A Lluc day observed a strange light between the thick thickets of the "|massís|".Move for the curiosity, went in in them/it and discovered a small figure of the virgin María it stood out with difficulty of the earth.However, which really caused you surprise went that the virgin had a so dark skin such as yours own.Prisoner of a great excitment, the young shepherd took the figure to the parish priest of the church of Sant Pere d " Escorca, whose first documentary reference date of the year 1247.The parish priest destined to the valuable find a position of honor in the small church, but the next day, when the winds of the Tramuntana had spread the news and arrived faithfuls to venerate the, the virgin had disappeared.That same day for the afternoon, Lluc turned to find the exactly in the in fashion previous place.She is returned to take to the parish priest, who the placed again in your niche to verify with great astonishment the next day that had verso to disappear.This game of the hide-and-seek continued until to the parish priest is lit you a light:the virgin would want to be in the place in which, with your brilliance, it called for first time the attention of the Lluc little shepherd and immediately it is built there a chapel.É|sta| is the romantic version and poetic and who refuse to launch in the hands of the modern rationalism, by accepting, for example, the more prosaic version that in Mallorcan "|lluc|" is important forest, that still it abounds in the place and that, therefore, the small Lluc in a compassionate invention with an appropriate surname, it will do well in believing it firmly.So did it and continues making it the people, because immediately began to flow traveling with such intensity that in the year 1260 it laid the foundation stone of the Nostra Senyora hermitage of Lluc, governed then for the order of the augustians, afterwards, the construction was enlarged with a seminary and at present reside in it and attend it monks of the sacred heart. |
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