cuentos de barro - DSpace Universidad Don Bosco

Fue entonces cuando el terremoto,
que había estado un siglo con el pelo
cortado, haciéndose el babieca, entró
de golpe en la iglesia: y, como un nuevo
Sansón, agarro las columnas y sacudió.
Agruelio tuvo tiempo de ponerse en
pie.
—¡Santo Dios, santo juerte!...
Era tarde. El patrono había soltado su
bomba de anarquista. Tambaleó el
altar, desmoronándose como una torta
seca; se rajó el muro tremendo; y el
santo perdiendo los estribos, vino a dar
en la cabeza de Agruelio con su ladrillo
bíblico.
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The earthquake was like Samson with
his hair short for over a century. Acting
like babieca, 124 it suddenly entered
the church. And, as if it were a new
strengthened Samson, it grabbed the
columns and shook them. Aurelio was
barely able to stay on his feet.
“Holy God! Almighty Saint!”
It was too late. His patron saint
had already dropped his anarchist
bomb. The altar staggered, and then
crumbled like a dry loaf of bread. The
large retaining wall cracked. The Saint
lost his balance and smashed Aurelio’s
head with his biblical brick.
124. Babieca: idiot. Also, Babieca was the supreme war horse of Spain in the 11th century who carried El
Cid’s dead body and defeated the Moors.