Francisco de Zurbaran "Santa Casilda"

 Francisco de Zurbaran 1558-1664)

Fantastic!

my new discovery and it's a new addition to my gallery of enigmatic women's portraits 

According to her legend, St. Casilda, a daughter of a Muslim king of Toledo (called Almacrin or Almamun), showed special kindness to Christian prisoners by carrying bread hidden in her clothes to feed them.

Once, she was stopped by Muslim soldiers and asked to reveal what she was carrying in her skirt. When she began to show them, the bread turned into a bouquet of roses.

 She was raised a Muslim, but when she became ill as a young woman, she refused help from the local Arab doctors and traveled to northern Iberia to partake of the healing waters of the shrine of San Vicente, near Buezo, close to Briviesca. When she was cured, she was baptized at Burgos (where she was later venerated) and lived a life of solitude and penance not far from the miraculous spring. It is said that she lived to be 100 years old.

Glass Violin Concerto 3rd movement

“Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?”

Henry James

it's the 3rd movement of violin concerto by Philip Glass

an underrated piece of music, but one of my friends told me it was like movement of life itself, it never stops. it's also our inner dialogue.

I wanted to share it, because these days I had a lot of questions in my mind, questions to myself and I felt this way, in a mood for Glass's music