A Holy Warrior
One of the most enchanting places in the whole of Christendom is Covadonga in the Asturias region of northern Spain. The visitor, on approaching it for the first time, could easily imagine that he had stepped through a mystical portal into the elven realm of Lothlórien in Tolkien’s Middle-earth. Looking up through the trees, one sees the towers of the Neo-Romanesque edifice of the Basílica de…