The legend tells that Don Teodosio, son of the lord of the palace of Goñi, one of the rich men of the country, married Doña Constanza de Butron y Vianda, noble of the region of Goñi.
Don Teodosio
In the year 707, during the reign of Witiza, Don Teodosio left for Africa to fight the Moors under the orders of Count Don Julian, according to some, and to defend Iruña (Pamplona) besieged by the Jews in coalition with the Moors, according to others.
Meanwhile, Doña Constanza had taken Don Teodosio's parents to his birthplace. On his return from the war, approaching his village, near Errotavidea (mill path) which leads to the Ollo valley, a devil appeared to him disguised as a hermit informing him that his wife was unfaithful to him with a servant, staining his honor and that of his family.
Don Teodosio rushed back to his wife's house and, making a mistake, killed his own parents who were sleeping in his bed by piercing their chests with his sword. As he left the house, he saw with surprise his wife coming out of the church and coming towards the house, happy at her husband's return. He realized his mistake.
The parricide confessed his fault that same evening to the parish priest of Goñi, Juan de Vergara, and then to the bishop of Pamplona, Martial, who ordered him to go to Rome on pilgrimage to obtain absolution from the Pope. The latter, after listening to the confession of the crime, sent him to do penance by wearing a large chain on his belt and carrying a cross on his back. When the chain breaks, he will have obtained forgiveness and should build, on the same spot, a church dedicated to the Archangel Saint Michael.
Being in the vicinity of Mount Ayedo, near Goñi, a link broke and there he built the hermitage of San Miguel de Ayedo which still exists. Seven years later, from a cave in Mount Aralar emerged a horrible dragon with eyes of flame and a dangerous mouth. Faced with danger, Don Teodosio invoked San Miguel. At that moment, in the middle of loud thunder, the archangel appeared with a cross on his head. The dragon died and the chains cut, San Miguel left Don Teodosio a small wooden image. At this place he built a church where he retired with his wife. Here the image of San Miguel and the chains of sacrifice are venerated.
