Last Friday, April 23, La Fiesta De Sant Jordi was celebrated in Catalunya. Part of the fiesta (holiday) comes from a legend or tale. There are many versions of the tale but they all are similar. It goes that a dragon captured a princess and no one was able to rescue her. One day a man came along named Jordi who killed the dragon and rescued the princess. From the blood of the dragon grew a rose, which Jordi gave to the princess. After that the two got married and lived happily ever after... typical fairy tale.
The other part of the fiesta deals with books. Books are important on this day because it is said that Shakespeare and Cervantes (a Spanish writer famous for his work "Don Quijote") both died on April 23.
I remember Rosa (Sebastian's mother) telling me about this years ago. It's cool that you participated in this tradition.
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