They are painstakingly cleaning the tomb-sculpture of a 13th-century knight, scrubbing off black grime that has built up over hundreds of years.

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You don't have to believe that legend, but Henry Plantagenet, later Henry II of England, husband of Eleanor of Aquitaine and the father of Lionhearted, did, and he came here to pray to the Black Madonna that still looks down on those who come to the little chapel by the tomb where the hermit's body was found.

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