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LUCÍA FRANCIS OF ASSISI FELL IN LOVE WITH DAME POVERTY AND MARRIED HER Lucía’s age is that of the old women of the Bible. She’s all thin but quite tall. And beneath an exterior which does not cover properly her poverty, she still stands up straight like a tree. Nobody can believe that this so frail of a woman was before a tamer of horses. And a tireless dancer. Each year, around the feast of the Virgin of the Rosary, she would go running towards Mount Sixilera where the «Mamita» would wait for her. In the wee hours of the morning, the « misachico » would begin its long descent towards the village church. That hiking of wind, dust and blazing sun would last at least a good twelve hours, reaching sometimes such heights where people and even animals have a hard time breathing. All along the footpath o...