This is his tomb in the cathedral. The massive edifice actually goes down an additional story inside the iron fence. This is also the church where they keep live chickens to commemorate a miracle. A young man on the Camino had virtuously resisted the advances of an innkeeper's daughter. Annoyed at being rebuffed she hid a silver goblet in his bags (sound familiar? Biblical, even?). He was arrested and hanged and his sad parents prepared to leave the city. However as they were leaving one had a vision in which he saw his son saying that he was not dead as St Dominic was lifting up his feet. They raced to the magistrate who scoffed that their son was no more alive than the roast chickens he was
eating. Whereupon the cooked birds came back to life and flew about the room. The boy was rescued and ever since they've kept chickens in the cathedral.
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