Art and Mysteries of the Camino de Santiago: the Sanctuary of Santa CasildasteemCreated with Sketch.

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The enigmatic Burgalese Bureba.
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The Game of the Goose, metaphorically speaking, induces me to continue playing; and in doing so, it indicates a province full of history, mysteries and beauty: Burgos. And within his administration, he suggests that I make my way through a region where the geese made countless riddles in the stone.
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Keys that in many cases have been lost, although there is, fortunately, some but loose; some indication of that ancient wisdom; somewhere to meditate and revitalize ideas. The region to which I refer is La Bureba. And the place, this mysterious Sanctuary of Santa Casilda.
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The Sanctuary of Santa Casilda is approximately fifteen kilometers from Briviesca, and about seven or eight kilometers from Revillalcón, a small rural town, which recommends a visit to its parish church, which still conserves interesting Romanesque elements, although its structure is not in the best conditions, threatening ruin in some points.
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Located in a wild place, although not exempt of wild beauty, it is seen in the distance crowning a rocky promontory, from which one has an impressive general perspective.
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To the point, that a simple glance is enough to suspect, in times, a Celtiberian presence in the surroundings, not exempt, as well, from the existence of druidic cults that, like in many other peninsular places, were conveniently masked and Christianized.
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Such elements, at least consigned in their basic form, we would locate them easily in the forest, in the source, in the pond and in the tree -or rather, in what remains of its trunk-, located, in this case, in a small meadow that is at the foot of the promontory on whose summit, as I said, rises the structure of the sanctuary.
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Even there, there is no lack of the cave -called San Vicente, as the sacred source to which I referred earlier- inside which we can see that paradigmatic and Celtic feature, which has remained anchored in the collective memory of the inhabitants. villages, as is the custom of offering perks - in this case, coins, with a five-euro bill included, in an anecdotal way - to a Christian saint, a substitute for the ancient sources and wells.
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Although in its beginnings, the sanctuary must have constituted just a small hermitage, Romanesque for more signs, of this there is no trace at present.
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However, in its cover, neoplateresca at least, are defined to perfection the basic elements that summarize the history of this curious saint of Moorish origins, which has a great devotion of the people of the surroundings, and in whose miracle the Virgin -she said comparatively and without the intention of disturbing anyone's personal beliefs- she performed a Eucharistic miracle, transforming the loaves with which she stealthily fed the Christian prisoners, for roses when the father surprised her.
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The chronicles tell us-if we can talk about chronicles-that she fell ill, the benefactress Casilda converted to the Christian faith and retired to this place, where she died in the odor of sanctity.
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Here arises another reference that I consider convenient to take into account, because there have been antecedents in pagan cults: the votive offerings. They are located in a small house that the visitor finds before arriving at the church.
Inside and occupying the center of the room, a statue of Santa Casilda reclining prevails on walls full of pictures and what I have to assume certificates, replacing the old votive offerings -belts, crutches, orthopedic limbs, etc.- as yet can be seen in some rural churches, remember the ancient cult of Diana, whose shrines-or at least, more than one-have found pieces of pottery representing different parts of the body, supposedly healed through the Goddess.
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In short, a place not only interesting and respectful, but also a special place, a place of the spirit where you can relax and think that, after all, there are still more than enough details to think that there is nothing new under the sun.
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