Old Castile

Born at Calaruega, in Old Castile, in 1170, of a stock which his brethren love to connect with the royal house, his saintliness was so penetrating that it reflected back upon his mother, who is reverenced as St. Juana de Aga, and at one time there was danger that even his father might be drawn into the saintly circle.

New England is a very different sort of place from Old Castile.

I saw, in imagination, the uplands of Old Castile, as I had often heard them described, hot in summer and bleak in winter.

Beyond Miranda, the first town of old Castile, the desolate scene appeared in its full awfulness.

One of the proudest families of Old Castile, they claimed descent from the Cid, and cherished the memory of another heroic ancestor, who, in 1385, sacrificed his life to save his king.