As it was being carried across the site of the present-day monastery, the Santa Faz is said to have suddenly become too heavy to hold, and believers claim that a tear fell from the right eye of the image.
There is a fantastical legend about the Santa Faz.
Napoleon invaded Spain in March 1808 and invested his older, taller, and more agreeable brother, Joseph, as King Jos?? I. On May 2, 1808, Madrid rose up against the interloper.