Mysteries sacred

The ancient monastery of oscense Sanjuan de la Peña is surely one of the most prolific in secret not studied in the field of medieval Spanish history.

From being the place where he was kept for many centuries which is the Holy Chalice of the Last Supper, the most immediate griálica representation of all amounts constitute the great legend Arturo, to the wonder of its location, dug between cliffs that make it a tribute to the rock contains the most impressive Romanesque cloister free, protected by rocks that will serve as a roof.

In this faculty, and precisely on the wall that separates the church from the nearby cave, a curious viewer can see that among the numerous brands mason chisel in stone, there was a considerable amount of keys, which the Church and many academic researchers have attributed to ecclesiastical symbols used by the quarry.

However, a lucid reflection, accompanied by the mystery that is reflected in the figures of the capitals cloistered, a mysterious history that have not yet clarified, leads us to another suspect: perhaps the quarry workers who built this unique faculty suggested some warn guienes the way to visit the monastic site contained a deep mystery and could be open by the keys / keys gue filled with the single wall built of the great sacred space.

The keys of San Juan de la Pena are, somehow, how to draw, so obvious, the attention of those visitors who come and want to know the true transcendent meaning that is hidden in that beautiful and wise, because he, in the decoration of their dilapidated parca capitals, in all its meticulous arrangement of columns and at the precise order they occupy, the message is expressed in a language that analog sacred builders wanted to convey to them happen. The difficulties that this language should not imply amendrentarnos.