According to legend...
on a Saturday evening in 880...
two young shepherds observed a great light descend from heaven...
and settle halfway up the mountain of Montserrat.
The light was accompanied by a beautiful melody.
The following week, accompanied by their parents, they saw the same vision again.
The vision continued to repeat in later weeks...
even when the boys brought the rector of Olesa de Montserrat.
In response, the priest alerted the Bishop of Manresa...
and a cave was found which contained the icon of the Virgin Mary.
But when a procession tried to move the Virgin down the mountain to Manresa...
it became too heavy to carry.
This was interpreted as a divine signal...
that the Virgin should be venerated...
on Montserrat.
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