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"I can well believe it," said Sancho; "but I wish your worship would tell me what is the reason that the Spaniards, when they are about to give battle, in calling on that Saint James the Moorslayer, say 'Santiago and close Spain! Is Spain, then, open, so that it is needful to close it; or what is the meaning of this form?"

"I can well believe it," said Sancho; "but I wish your worship would tell me what is the reason that the Spaniards, when they are about to give battle, in calling on that Saint James the Moorslayer, say 'Santiago and close Spain! Is Spain, then, open, so that it is needful to close it; or what is the meaning of this form?"

So he politely approached the men and asked them what was hidden underneath the white coverings, and was told that they were images of saints that they were transporting to their village church; and in order not to soil them, they had covered them thus. The man took great pride in showing our knight the figures there were Saint George, Saint Martin, Saint James the Moorslayer, and Saint Paul.

This one is called Don Saint James the Moorslayer, one of the bravest saints and knights the world ever had or heaven has now." They then raised another cloth which it appeared covered Saint Paul falling from his horse, with all the details that are usually given in representations of his conversion.

This one is called Don Saint James the Moorslayer, one of the bravest saints and knights the world ever had or heaven has now." They then raised another cloth which it appeared covered Saint Paul falling from his horse, with all the details that are usually given in representations of his conversion.