Cantigas de Santa Maria N° 72: Quen diz mal da Reynna espiritual

A man was drinking and gambling in a tavern.

When he lost at dice, he started cursing God and he mocked the Virgin’s body.

When he cursed the Virgin’s womb, God struck him dead.

The gambler’s father heard the news. He encountered a dead man who told him that his son had died in mortal sin--not because he had cursed Christ, but because he had insulted the Virgin.

The dead man told him that he would find his son’s body slit from top to bottom with his heart split in two.

The father found his son exactly as described.

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