Fermin legend, and returned to Pamplona as its first bishop. On a later voyage preaching the gospel, Fermin was beheaded in Amiens, France. He died on September 25, AD 303. In "Legenda aurea" several miracles attended the discovery and translation of the relics of Saint Fermin in the time of Savin, bishop of Amiens (traditionally "ca" 600). A sweet odor arose from his grave. The smell caused ice and snow to melt, flowers to grow, the sick to be cured, and trees to be inclined reverently toward the saint. Besides Pamplona, San Fermín is venerated in other places in Navarre, such
The Festival of San Joaquin The Festival of San Joaquin The Festival of San Joaquin is a 1997 novel, the third from Belizean-American Zee Edgell. In a change from her first two novels, "Beka Lamb" and "In Times Like These", the story is set in the village of San Joaquin, Corozal District. Upon her release from prison, protagonist Luz Marina must figure out how to approach her mother-in-law in order to gain back the custody of her children, Teresa, Edwardo and Feliciano. She went to prison for the death of her husband whom she had killed in self defense. The mother of her husband was