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Non Sofre Santa Maria (CSM 159)

from Liminal by Nicholas Breeze Wood

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The melody to song number 159 in a manuscript of 420 songs called the Cantigas De Santa Maria, written around 1250 in Castile in Spain, which were commissioned and possibly written by King Alfonso X of Castile, called 'eel Sabio' due to his great wisdom and learning.

Many of the songs portray small miracles attributed to the Virgin Mary.

In this song some pilgrims take lodging at an inn, and ordered bread, wine and meat for their dinner. As the meal is prepared they go to the nearby church to pray, but while they are a way, a servant girl steals one of the pieces of meat.

When their return, the pilgrims discovered that the meat is missing and asked the Virgin Mary to recover it for them.

As soon as they ask her, the piece of meat starts jumping up and down, inside a wooden chest where the serving girl has hidden it, and the pilgrims hear it and find it there.

The pilgrims rejoice, take back the meat, but instead of earning it they hang it from a silk cord and place it in front of the Virgin’s altar at the church of Rocamadour.

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from Liminal, released September 1, 2018

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Multi instrumentalist singer-songwriter drawing on Rock, Arabic and Medieval music, using instruments from all those traditions

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