Da toda almafiel

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Da toda almafielDa toda almafiel gracias al cielo, Que perdonado al pecador que yerra, Para remedio suyo, y su consuelo, Tal bien el Reyno de Golizia encierra : Para que venga desde todo el suelo A las postreras partes de la tierra, Todo Jiel Catolico Christiano, A implorar el auxilio soberano" Cristoval de Mesa, El Patron de Espana, The high altar at Compostella is, as all the altars formerly were in Galicia and Asturias, not close to the wall, but a little detached from it. It is ten feet in length, and very wide, with a splendid frontispiece of silver. The altar itself is hollow, and at the Gospel end there is a small door, never opened except to royal visitors, and when a new Archbishop first comes to take possession. It was opened for Ambrosio de Morales, because he was commissioned to inspect the churches: nothing, however, was to be seen within, except two large flat stones, which formed the floor, and at the end of them a hole about the size of an orange, but filled with mortar. Below is the vault in which the body of Santiago is said to be deposited in the marble coffin wherein it was found. The vault extends under the altar and its steps, and some way back under the Capella Mayor: it is in jimmy choo shoes fact a part of the Crypt walled off with a thick wall, para dexar cerrado del todo el santo cuerpo.The Saint, whose real presence is thus carefully concealed, receives his pilgrims in effigy. The image is a half figure of stone, a little less than life, gilt and painted,holding in one hand jimmy choo uggs a book, and as if giving a blessing with the other. Esta en cabello, without either crown or glory on the head, but a large silver crown id suspended immediately above, almost so as to touch the head; and the last ceremony which a pilgrim performs jimmy choo is to ascend to the image, which is over the altar, by a staircase from the Epistle side, kiss it reverently on the head, embrace it, and place this crown upon it, and then go down on the Gospel side.