JUGGLING THE MIDDLE AGES

Once upon a time, there lived in France a humble juggler, Barnaby by name, who was skillful but suffered every winter from poverty. A devotee of the Virgin, he had few failings apart from enjoying drink a little too much. One day he met a monk, who persuaded him t o enter a monastery. There he felt miserable at his inability to show his devotion to the Virgin Mary as the other monks did. Then a n idea came to him: he would perform before the Madonna! The monks caught him and were outraged or thought he was mad, but soon they saw the ...[Leer más]