After climbing a mountain...
the saint saw a precious castle...
from whose towers flowed four great rivers.
Ahead was a large green field, with a crystal pavilion covered in precious stones.
Inside, all the sadness turned to joy.
The saint wanted to go through the castle gate...
but a porter stopped him.
He could only see the inside of the castle from the gate.
In the distance, Amaro saw the characteristic landscape of Earthly Paradise.
The birds sang so melodiously, that the charm of their voices...
made a thousand years pass as if they were only one day.
In the midst of it all, the Virgin was adored...
and young maidens played instruments and danced around her.
Everyone passed in front of Her...
laying wreaths and palm branches at Her feet.
Even the birds came to worship the Mother of God.
When Saint Amaro asked the doorman again to let him in...
the guard told him that it was time to leave there...
that he had spent 266 years at the gate of Paraíso Terreno...
and had not aged at all.
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He told him that the day would come...
when he could enter the Heavenly Heaven...
which was even more glorious than the earthly one.
He also offered him fruits from Heaven...
but Amaro only wanted some land.
Returning to the place where he had left his companions...
he saw that a great city had been built there.
When the descendants of those...
who had been in his company...
realized who he was...
they bestowed on him due honor.
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He lived the rest of his life in a monastery he founded...
close to the monastery of the noble ladies...
and when he died he was buried...
next to his two holy friends...
Beralides and Bridget.
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