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«The twelve apostles» in Spanish

Los doce apóstoles

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📖 Pages1
⏰ Reading time 10 minutes
💡 Originally published1819
🌏 Original language German
📌 Types Stories , Stories

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Los doce apóstoles: read the book with parallel translation into English

Trescientos años antes del nacimiento de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo, vivía una madre que tenía doce hijos. Y era tan pobre y estaba tan necesitada, que no sabía cómo seguir manteniéndolos. Rezaba todos los días a Dios pidiéndole la gracia de que sus hijos se encontrasen en la Tierra cuando viniera a ella el prometido Mesías. A medida que aumentaba su miseria, la madre los iba mandando, uno tras otro, por el mundo, a ganarse el pan. El mayor se llamaba Pedro. Partió y, al cabo de una larga jornada, llegó a un gran bosque. Estuvo buscando la salida, pero sólo consiguió extraviarse cada vez más. Y tenía tanta hambre, que casi no podía aguantarse de pie. Al fin, la debilidad lo obligó a tumbarse, persuadido de que iba a morir, cuando, de pronto, se le presentó un niño, reluciente, hermoso y afable como un ángel. El pequeño dio unas palmadas para llamar la atención de Pedro, el cual, levantando la mirada, violo a su lado. Díjole entonces el niño:
- ¿Qué haces ahí tan triste?
- ¡Ay! - respondió Pedro -. Voy corriendo mundo para ganarme el pan y alcanzar a ver al Mesías prometido, pues éste es mi mayor deseo.
- Ven, tu deseo será realizado - le dijo el niño -. Y, tomando a Pedro de la mano, lo condujo a una gran cueva que había entre unas rocas. Al entrar en ella, todo era un ascua de oro, plata y cristal, y, en el centro, había doce cunas alineadas. Dijo entonces el ángel:
- Échate en la primera y duerme un poco; te voy a mecer.
Hízolo Pedro, y el ángel le cantó y meció hasta que se hubo dormido. Y, mientras dormía, llegó el segundo hermano, acompañado también por su ángel protector, que lo meció y durmió a su vez, cantándole la nana; y así sucesivamente todos los demás, por turno, hasta que los doce estuvieron dormidos en las doce cunas de oro. Y así durmieron por espacio de trescientos años, hasta la noche en que vino al mundo el Redentor. Entonces se despertaron y vivieron con él en la Tierra. Fueron los doce apóstoles.
Three hundred years before the birth of the Lord Christ, there lived a mother who had twelve sons, but was so poor and needy that she no longer knew how she was to keep them alive at all. She prayed to God daily that he would grant that all her sons might be on the earth with the Redeemer who was promised. When her necessity became still greater she sent one of them after the other out into the world to seek bread for her. The eldest was called Peter, and he went out and had already walked a long way, a whole day's journey, when he came into a great forest. He sought for a way out, but could find none, and went farther and farther astray, and at the same time felt such great hunger that he could scarcely stand. At length he became so weak that he was forced to lie down, and he believed death to be at hand. Suddenly there stood beside him a small boy who shone with brightness, and was as beautiful and kind as an angel. The child smote his little hands together, until Peter was forced to look up and saw him. Then the child said, "Why art thou sitting there in such trouble?" - "Alas!" answered Peter, "I am going about the world seeking bread, that I may yet see the dear Saviour who is promised, that is my greatest desire." The child said, "Come with me, and thy wish shall be fulfilled." He took poor Peter by the hand, and led him between some cliffs to a great cavern. When they entered it, everything was shining with gold, silver, and crystal, and in the midst of it twelve cradles were standing side by side. Then said the little angel, "Lie down in the first, and sleep a while, I will rock thee." Peter did so, and the angel sang to him and rocked him until he was al seep. And when he was asleep, the second brother came also, guided thither by his guardian angel, and he was rocked to sleep like the first, and thus came the others, one after the other, until all twelve lay there sleeping in the golden cradles. They slept, however, three hundred years, until the night when the Saviour of the world was born. Then they awoke, and were with him on earth, and were called the twelve apostles.
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