One of the coolest things I saw in Spain was the Cathedral of Toledo, but the coolest thing about it (at least for me as a priest) was the image and history of the El Greco painting "The Tears of St. Peter" in its voluminous sacristy. The homily today is a reflection on Peter's anguish and on the cool story about the painting.
(After giving the homily linked here, I was looking up more details, and wikipedia listed eight editions of it made by El Greco himself, but the two in Toledo are in museums. So I thought I must've remembered wrong and that we saw the sacristy alone and heard the story there, but only saw the painting at a museum later. That's even what I told the next two Masses. But no, there is still a copy of the original in the sacristy to replace the time-worn original which they repaired and moved to a museum.)
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