San Borondón Island (Canary Islands)
In the V century, and given the limited success among the people of Ireland were his preaching, St. Brendan and Brendan , in the Canary Islands is remembered with the name of St. Borondón, on the advice of St. Barinto and accompanied by seven fellow hermits, some say they were fourteen - sailed to leave that island and travel in search of others where their sermons were well received. Especially looking for the famous island delight, the island paradise that has been known by the name of Covert, Non Trouba Encantada or loss, which claims that living the "water boys", abused children who adopted fairies, watched by Mrs. "Seteharalomismoquetuhiciste" and awarded the holidays for her sister, Mrs. "Hazloquetegustariaquetehicieran."
There narrators who say that St. Borondón arrived to find that island, but many others say that it was not, but the saint and his crewmates, after a journey full of hardships and accidents, and arrive at different islands and leave them, they saw a beautiful island, covered with thick vegetation and shining shining between thousands of flowers, flown bird with feathers of all colors.
Imagining that it was the island that had been so eagerly looking for the holy passengers docked his boat next to her looking for wood to make a good fire to dry their soaked clothes and prepared to celebrate Mass Easter, which this very day conmemoraba.Cuando were in the middle of the mass, the ground began to move under his feet and the saints sailors discovered with horror that the island was only apparent a giant sea creature, a fish called jasconio, the first of which swam in the sea, which was to carry a lot of time sleeping, so as to enable the fruition of that splendid vegetation on their skin, but had no doubt that aroused the bonfire lit by the newcomers.
Without losing hope, san Borondón asked God to again paralyze the monster began to awaken and God agreed to their island ruegos.Fuese fixed or monstrous animal, the fact is that the island discovered by St Borondón ended joining the Canaries archipelago, and from ancient times known as the Fortunate Isles, as the eight of them, even with the miraculous characteristic that only becomes visible in some circumstances.
appearances are documented at least since the fifteenth century and prepared expeditions in search, after sighting, have been unable to do so by the bad weather. The last unsuccessful expedition in search of the island of St. Borondón was ordered by the captain-general of the Canary Islands, Juan de Mur, in 1721.
On 10 August 1958, the Madrid daily ABC reproduced a photograph of that magical island.
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