15 June 1533 - Más de dos mil personas, algunas descalzas, andan a Montserrat para curar a la mujer de Carlos I de dolor de muelas
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, and with permission from the councillors more than 2,000 people set out, some of them without shoes.




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[...] That rather lonely set-up worries me: could it be that what they have in mind is the unifying function of Mao's not-so Long March in the creation of the Chineses dictatorship, rather than the great Spanish pilgrimages of our over-extended late-medieval age, like the march from Málaga to Madrid in 1982 of 30 blind lottery ticket vendors unhappy with their contractual arrangements, all of whom survived, and the departure in June 1533 of more than 2,000 citizens of Barcelona, many forswearing footwear, for Montserrat, by which they hoped to cure the wife of Charles I of Spain of a dreadful case of toothache? [...]