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+ | Although the Czech and Spanish countries are distant from each other, we have evidence of their mutual contact from the early Middle Ages. The earliest written records of Prague were written in 965-6 AD by the Jew Ibrahim ibn Yaqub, a traveling envoy of the Moorish Caliphate from Cordoba in Spain. However, the legend of St. Orosia raises the possibility that eighty years earlier there was already a connection between Czech and Spanish lands. | ||
+ | There are two versions of the legend of Saint Orosia/ | ||
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+ | According to the second variant, Dobroslava was born in 864 in the Bohemian town of Laspicio (Iaspicio) as the daughter of Mojslav, one of the five Bohemian princes. After the death of her father, she was adopted by St. Ludmila and Prince Bořivoj I and moved to Levý Hradec near Prague. At Levý Hradec, in the chapel of St. Clement, Dobroslava and Ludmila were baptized by a disciple of St. Methodius. Dobroslava was promised to Bořislav' | ||
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+ | When St. Methodius visited Rome for the third time in 880, Pope John VIII asked him to find a suitable bride for the son of King Fortún I of Navarre [3]. Prince Fortún was to become heir to the thrones of Navarre and Aragon and an important link in the struggle against the Moors in the Iberian Peninsula. St. Methodius recommended Dobroslava and subsequently returned to Bohemia with an Aragonese envoy to ask Prince Bořivoj and Princess Dobroslava for consent to the marriage. | ||
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+ | In 880, the sixteen-year-old Dobroslava was sent to Spain, where, after crossing the Pyrenees, she was to meet Prince Fortún in the town of Jaca. However, near the Spanish town of Yebra de Basa, her retinue was attacked by a Moorish captain, the renegade Aben Lupo [perhaps ibn Lubb of Banu Qasi, 4], who killed the Aragonese envoy and sought to capture Dobroslava for himself. The princess' | ||
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+ | The path around the waterfall of Saint Orosia in the Pyrenees [5] is lined with chapels [6] and every June a procession sets out from the town of Jaca [7] to the church above the waterfall [8]. | ||
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+ | The confectioners of Jaca also make a dessert called the crowns of Saint Orosia - Coronitas de Santa Orosia [9]. | ||
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