Virgen of the Assumption
Elche, Spain (1370)
The story goes that on December 28, 1370, a lookout named Francesc Canto, watching the coast off Elche, discovered a chest floating in the sea. He went on horseback to tell the Council. The Virgin went with him, waited at Garden of the Red Gates until the Council issued a proclamation and sent a committee to fetch her. In the chest was a statue of the Virgin of the Assumption and the libretto of a mystery play enacting her death and assumption to heaven.
That play, the Misterio de Elche, is presented annually at the Feast of the Assumption in August. La Venida de la Virgen (the Coming of the Virgin), is enacted yearly on December 28.
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Source: "365 Days with Mary" by Michael O'Neill
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