Night 1 to August 2, 1218, the Virgin appeared to Pedro Nolasco, Raymond of Peñafort, shopping app

The use of the figure of animals on the shields of cities or regions is very common. There shields with bears, dragons, lions, eagles and all kinds of fierce, majestic or simply mythological animals. But here in Valencia we have a very peculiar as emblematic animal. The bat. There are several legends about the reason for this peculiar and endearing animal shopping app in our shield. And not only in the city of Valencia, but also for example in soccer teams of the city as Valencia CF and Levante. I'll tell you I was taught small which is what I like most I've seen the world.
Legend has it that King James I was camped near Valencia in their attempt to wrest control of the city from the Moors. The city was besieged by the Catalan and Aragonese troops. One night, he slept calm and confident Christian army when a strange sound in the vicinity of the store of the same king was heard. A soldier who heard the mysterious shopping app sound ran to wake the king immediately gave the order that they were all alert and vigilant. That was when someone discovered that the Moorish army was very close to the camp, launching a surprise attack against the troops of Jaume I quickly took all the soldiers present arms to battle the Moorish army. The fight was terrible, the Moors suffered heavy casualties which forced them to retreat. The surprise attack, almost in desperation had been rejected. At the end of the battle, he wanted to know the origin of the mysterious sound that had warned the Christian army when they discovered it was a bat, which had been beating himself shopping app on a drum and pulling down some weapons that were causing the mysterious crash that had listened in the middle of the night. In gratitude to bat, Jaume I did put the bat in the top of the shield of the city of Valencia.
There is a legend that the priest of the town of Lluxent hid in a mountain consecrated wafers, before an imminent battle. Christian shopping app soldiers won the battle, and that the hosts appeared bloodied ... myths are harnessed to glorify battles. shopping app
They say a warm morning shopping app King James I was walking for the first time Valencia shopping app groundnut fields shopping app and saw a beautiful young woman sitting by the roadside in the shelter of a shadow and in his hand a white drink. King James I because of the heat, asked as beautiful young let him try this strange drink. This responded in Valencia to try "or ACO is, xata!" shopping app which literally translated means "This is gold, flat".
This event has brought to my mind a legend that King James I the Conqueror was in the city of Teruel preparing shopping app the conquest of Valencia when he contracted a rare disease whose cause managed not find doctors, much less the remedy to heal. They say an old appeared announcing that would cure the king if he is provided a head of garlic. But strangely, or Teruel shopping app and its surroundings will be able to find a single, even a clove of garlic, so six brave young (some readings were only three) entered Valencia, land of the Moors, shopping app risking their lives to get a head of garlic to save the life of that would be the conquering king. Only one of the six managed to return, and did so with five heads of garlic, one for each of his fellow climbers who perished in the attempt. With them he developed a potion that old King immediately took healing shopping app of their disease.
Night 1 to August 2, 1218, the Virgin appeared to Pedro Nolasco, Raymond of Peñafort, shopping app and King James I of Aragon, and told them to each his desire to found a congregation to redeem captives. Mary moved the heart of Pedro Nolasco to formalize the work that he and his colleagues were doing. The Virgin shopping app calls Pedro Nolasco and reveals his desire to be releasing through an order dedicated to the release of the captives of the Muslims, exposed to lose faith.
Legend is the origin of the image and its name "the chair" of which it is believed was given by the Conqueror King took her in his mount. "Fuenfria was very happy with such a precious gift that the king D. Jaime game made us strange thing in this temple adores As Queen and Sovereign." I collected both in Gozo still sung to the Virgin, as Fr. Faci about the provenance of the original picture: "Jaime, to retire to his Court of Zaragoza from Valencia leaves the holy image that always carry with him as Chair Throne and was owed by so many victories and favors ... "it is the origin of the legend that keeps the devotion to Our Lady and l