King, Georgiana Goddard: A brief account of the military orders in Spain (New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1921)

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MILITARY ORDERS
The Pax of
Ucles is the
frontispiece
here
Apparitions
in the
Americas
from Ucles, having taken all their goods,
these in retaliation carried off with them
all the plate from the sacristy. How much
and how splendid will have been that gold
and silver work, those chalices and paxes,
patens and portable altars, it is hard to
imagine, but one piece we may be sure
was there, a Byzantine slab of dark ser-
pentine carved in the tenth century with the
Harrowing of Hell. S. James was the
Conductor of Souls, and this piece had a
special significance: it was superbly reset
as a pax in 1565 by Cristobal Becerril, and
bears the hall-mark of Cuenca. Now pre-
served in Ciudad Real, it had come back
to Ucles when a Papal commission of three
Spanish bishops had adjusted the relations
of lay and clerical there, the first clause of
the arrangement providing that every one
should forgive every one else and bear no
grudges.
Santiago was still their leader, and awake.
At the battle of Jerez de la Frontera S.
James and his white horse were seen by
Moors and Christians. But indeed he was
seen in the Americas, in battle, also.
HISPANIC NOTES