Legend of the three little virgins
The legend of the three maidens tells the sad story of three sisters that took place in the place where the chapel of the Three Virgins now stands.
In the Middle Ages, the area where the chapel stands today was covered by a dense forest. A man had gone to this lonely place with his three daughters to gather wood. Instigated by his stepmother he decided to abandon them in that place, so that they could not return home. The girls did not notice their father's flight, when they realized what had happened it was already evening and they took shelter behind a bush. The next day, at dawn, a hunter passed by who, believing that the noises behind the bush were caused by a beast, shot an arrow that killed one of the sisters. The two surviving sisters beg the hunter to spare them, but the latter, panicked, not to leave witnesses killed them. Finally he buried the girls to make all traces disappear. Over time, the memory of the three girls was lost, the father died of a broken heart from remorse, the hunter went mad and took his own life.
It happened long after that two travelers stopped in that place to rest on the long journey. One of the two, who was blind, heard the sound of water coming from behind a bush, and right where the three girls were buried, there was a pool of water. She bathed her face and drank of that water, thanked the Divine with sincere faith, and in that moment she saw for the first time the color of the sky and the three little girls. That water had given him sight.
The traveler told of that miraculous water and of the three virgins he saw, and since then that pool of water became a place of pilgrimage.
