In Caravaca, a Moorish town in southeastern Spain, a captured Christian priest named Ginés Pérez Chirinos was permitted by the Moorish king Ceyt-Abuceyt to demonstrate the Mass that the Christians celebrated. As Ginés prepared the altar he realised the altar lacked a crucifix. As he stood in dismay, two angels descended through the window of the room and placed on the altar a small reliquary cross containing a fragment of the True Cross. The astonished king was converted on the spot, with his entire household.
The cross — the 'Vera Cruz of Caravaca,' a double-barred cross of distinctive Hispanic design — has been venerated at Caravaca since. It is one of the five great pilgrimages of Spain to which a jubilee year is permanently granted (every seventh year, in perpetuity).