Messi uttered those three words, the same words used by a very joking master stonemason in a sixth-century monastery
What a silly look! The sentence of the World Cup in Qatar was pronounced by Messi on December 10. It will undoubtedly be remembered the most and in Argentina it has already led to it being incorporated into some songs or used as a legend on wine labels. The 10 of the albiceleste team went along with that. You look crazy! the Dutchman Wout Weghorst, who was waiting for him while Messi spoke to the press after a painful penalty shootout in which the ‘oranges’ were eliminated in the quarter-finals. And it turns out those same three words have been etched in stone for centuries in a 1,500-year-old Galician monastery: the Abbey of Samos, in the province of Lugo. In particular, in one of the stone medallions that adorn the vaults of the cloister of the Lugo Monastery. There you see in red letters the curious inscription, which is attributed to the master stonemason Pedro Rodríguez de Ramberde, author of the reconstruction works of the monastery between 1562 and 1582 and which, as we can see, is an account of his peculiar sense of humor .
The Gothic-style monastery was built on the ruins of the former Romanesque-style monastery, which was destroyed by fire in the mid-16th century. Reconstruction work was carried out shortly afterwards, with Rodríguez de Ramberde, a resident of Monforte de Lemos, as master stonemason. Good old Pedro could think of nothing but to write in large capitals the already legendary ‘What are you looking at, idiot’ on one of the decorations that finish the ribs of the cloister vaults.
The inscription is legible with the naked eye, with no hieroglyphs or strange letters that could lead to misunderstandings, making clear the joke played by the master stonemason and paving the way for those who many centuries later would see the figure of an astronaut in the facade from the New Cathedral of Salamanca, a building that was built between the 16th and 18th centuries.
The Monastery of Samos, which takes its name from the municipality in which it is located in Lugo, is the oldest inhabited monastery in Spain. With 1500 years of almost uninterrupted monastic life, it was founded in the 6th century and the Benedictine monks have been there since the 10th century. Perhaps now the religious will begin to receive a flood of tourists asking for “the expression of Messi” without knowing that it has been written in a Galician cenobrio for 500 years.
Source: La Verdad
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