1533/06/15
Juan Cortada & José de Manjarrés with Josefina Roma (1848). El libro verde de Barcelona. Añalejo de costumbres populares, fiestas religiosas y profanas, usos familiares, efemérides de los sucesos mas notables acaecidos en Barcelona. Barcelona: Sauri. [Private collection: GBS OCR too poor to use.] [more]
The wife of Emperor Charles I, who was in Barcelona, suffered terrible molar pain, and since it got worse and caused her great fever, public prayers were held, and the populace, dissatisfied with this, desired to undertake a pilgrimage to Montserrat [ca 70km], and with permission from the councillors more than 2,000 people set out, some of them without shoes.
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