The Legend
of Nazaré has
it that on the early morning of September 14, 1182, Dom Fuas Roupinho
was out hunting near the coast. Usually Nazare is considered a
surfing paradise due to its crazy waves. But at that time surfboards
did not exista and anyway Dom Fuas Roupinho hated to be mainstream.
He went hunting, cause he wanted to shoot someone. He could not shoot
his wife. Soon he saw a deer and he took his horse to chase him. All
of a sudden a heavy fog rose up from the sea. The deer ran towards
the edge of a cliff and Dom Fuas in the midst of the fog was cut off.
But he kept riding his horse, since he was stupid and wanted to shoot
someone. He passed a small grotto where a statue of Our Lady with
the Enfant was venerated. Then he realized that horse is galloping
towards edge of the clip and soon they are going to die. Thus he
prayed out loud Our
Lady, Help Me.
All of a sudden the horse miraculously stopped at the end of a rocky
point suspended
over the void, the Bico do Milagre (Point of the Miracle), thus
saving the rider and his mount from a drop of more than 100 metres,
that would certainly caused their death.
Since
Dom Fuas did not believe that horses have brains themselves and
actually do stop on their own, when they see a cliff ahead of them,
he went to the same grotto. He prayed there and thanked the god for
the miracle. He also built a chapel there, so the people who went
there to shoot dears in the fog, while being on the crazy galloping
horses, could see miracles and pray to gods before reaching the cliff
edges.
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