Fernando play

Scene one

Donna Berenguera in tears was kissing her 16 year old moaning son with a body covered with cruel sores causing him unrelieved torture at the door of death with Archbishop Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada in armor near by in a chapel. 

Berenguera: 

Our Lady of Ona, I beg you Holy Mary for the life of my son.

Berenguera then is quiet with her hands folded in prayer and her head on her hands and then she looks at her son smiling. The sores are gone and she weeps for joy seeing Fernando sitting up cured and she makes the sign of the cross and says:

Thank you, Mother and Queen of Heaven, I can see his soul is changed for I see his eyes now shine with a deep light that is proof that you have accepted him as your son.

Fernando smiling says to his mother:

Thank you mother, Holy Mary has cured me because you consecrated me to her and to her Son, the King of Kings.

Berenguera: 

You look different my son. 

Fernando: 

I feel difference. I think Holy Mary wants me build in our land a very great church and will call it Holy Mary and when I return from making war against the Moors who have invaded our Land and winning great battles I will retake our invaded land and I will hang all their standards before her altar.

Scene two

Fernando in armor asks the warrior Archbishop:

Tell again me now what happened that day when my grandfather King Alfonso saved Spain from total destruction.

Archbishop Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada: 

Remember what your grandfather faced, after the Moors destroyed our armies they cut off the knights head dead or alive.

With this in mind, what you grandfather with his small Christian army proposed to do was courageous sheer madness when he readied to charge down into a Muslim combined army of over a hundred thousand as his troops seemed ready to crumble. 

With the battle lost,  your grandfather shouted, "Archbishop, let you and me die here!" I roared back, "Here you shall defeat the enemy! 

He burst into into the battle-lines where we were defeated and the whole battle turned. Seeing your fearless grandfather, the other three kings rallied their knights, with the Christian of banner of Our Lady we broke through the line. The huge army fled or were killed. Spain miraculously by Our Lord and Our Lady saved Spain.