Círculo Románico, has investigated the presence of Irish monks in the Romanesque medieval Hispania

1. St Mary Major
Fuente Urbel
Spain

2. Fuenteurbel church is the final
victory of the Christian Roman
culture on the symbolism of the
Christian Celtic culture.

6. Pax Dei

7. Genesis arch

8. Peregrinatio propter
Christum, over the
sea.

9. Bestiary

12. All Saints' Day
SAMHAIN (or Samhuin), is the Great Feast of the First November
the most important of the Celtic calendar, which led to large
gatherings of people and complex rituals. The feast of Samain
is, etymologically, the "end of summer", the time re-lock the
herds in the stables in the Celtic community, which indicates
that it was a pastoral community.

14. Dagda:
the triad of Good Father God

16. Cú Chulainn:
The capital collected accidentally when faced with the
monstrous Culann hero dog, animal with supernatural
powers, able to cope with a hundred warriors at a time
... the eternal struggle of man against his own fears
enslaves him.

18. Maggi tonsure, caracteristic of irelands
monks

25. Ogmios,
the Celtic God of Eloquence and Persuasiveness
:
Lucian of Samosate (c. a.d. 170)
speaks of a Celtic Hercules, Ogmios, represented as an old man with white hair carrying a lion-skin, a
club, and a bow, and dragging after him a number of worshippers by little chains of gold and amber; the
chief chain hung from the god's tongue, symbolising eloquence. Ogmios is a title closely akin to the
name of Ogme, who is supposed in Ireland to have been the inventor of oghamic writing. The HerculesOgmios, of whom Lucian or the author he follows may have seen an image among the Allobroges (Dauphiné),
was a "civilising hero"; certain texts suggest that a similar character
was ascribed to the Celtic
Hercules, the founder of Alesia.

31. Maybe the faithful will never know how the Irish monks
saved european civilization, but the ritual of the Celtic
Christian church, syncretized, currently continues to
serve as a stage for religious services in St Mary Major
of Fuente Úrbel (Spain) !!!

32. Credits:
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Original text: “Fuenteurbel, presencia de arte céltico cristiano”
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Director of Investigation: Miguel Ángel Martín García
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Researchers and photographers: Grupo Ailbe de Investigación. Círculo Románico.
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Music: Lady in Black, performed by Ensiferum - (Original song © Uriah Heep
( Salisbury – 1971).
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