Santa Cueva de Covadonga

The Santa Cueva de Covadonga is a Catholic sanctuary placed in Asturias, northern Spain. It is a cave within the Picos de Europa mountains, which offers its name to the parish of Covadonga inside the municipality of Cangas de Onis. The name Covadonga refers back to the sanctuary, committed to the Virgin of Covadonga. The starting place of the cave as place of cult is debatable. It appears to have been at first some other area of confluence of Pagan Cult as the Wilweorthunga, meaning "properly of worship" have been in Prehistorical instances and nevertheless all through the Roman Empire career.

The Christian tradition has it that Pelagius, chasing a crook, who had taken safe haven within the cave, meets a hermit who was venerating the Virgin Mary. The hermit requested Pelagius to forgive the criminal, since the crook had resorted to the safety of the Virgin, and says that sooner or later that he too could want to are seeking safe haven inside the Cave. Some historians say the maximum manageable is that Pelagius and the Christians refugees in the Cave of the Muslims, they'll deliver them a photograph of the Virgin and go away her there after his victory on the Battle of Covadonga, the foundation of the Reconquista.