‘A que por muy gran fermosura’ is the title of Cantiga 384 from the Cantigas de Santa María, a collection of songs praising the Virgin Mary written during the reign of Alfonso X the Wise. This cantiga tells the story of a devout monk who wrote the name of Saint Mary in three colours to honour her great beauty, and how the Virgin appeared to him in a dream to thank him.
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