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    Life-size Bronze Statues

    Gaudi in Leon Villalcazar de Sirga Carrion de los Condes
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    A special rooster crowns the new spire at Notre Dame, Paris

    This is a benefit coming from the separation of Church and State: the works are payed by the state, even if the Cathedral is dedicated to catholic cult, because French people, whatever they believe, are attached to the works built by their ancestors.
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    Happy Thanksgiving to all US pilgrims!

    I offer my condolences to all the turkeys.
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    Pagan origins of the Camino

    Do not forget than long before christianism, judaism has lead believers to Jerusalem: there was a single Temple for jews, and it was in Jerusalem. Several times a year, practicing jews were going to Jerusalem (most probably walking) for religious festivals. Even before that, in India Benares was...
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    Pagan origins of the Camino

    It is true that christianism (and probably most of religions) has embedded some parts coming from previous cults, mainly festivals (at the solstice for example). But I cannot find evidences that there was a pagan pilgrimage before the Camino de Santiago. However the current pilgrimage has begun...
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    How the Camino Helps Villages/Towns Survive

    Not in France: on Via Podiensis, you can cross villages of just hundreds of inhabitants with a bakery, a bar, sometimes a grocery... You would never found so many shops in comparable village outside of the Camino.
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    Language difficulties.

    At the Tourism Office of San Sebastian, when I went there to ask for mass hours, the woman asked me: I guess that you do not look for a bilingual mass ? First I thought that in summer there were mass for tourists, spanish-english, or even spanish-french, but soon I realized it was spanish-basque...
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    Language difficulties.

    Now they are learning other languages (mainly english), but the learning of languages is not always very well done. In Spain like in France, younger people speak more english than older because they had the opportunity to travel. What about the US: do you think that many citizen of US do speak...
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    Camino Stories or Myths

    Flavius Josephus was not very interested by the beginning of christianism (we know since Voltaire that the Testimonium was added, or at least modified, later). Therefore, nothing surprising he did not write about apostles.
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    Camino Stories or Myths

    I do not understand why some people want to explain myths and legends. We now know that many events belonging to "History" are not actual facts. Nevertheless they have an actual impact on the facts. For instance, the battle of Alesia (Vercingetorix defeated by Jules Cesar) belongs to History...
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    Camino Stories or Myths

    It is a summary of book V. I have a french translation of the Codex Calixtinus (2847340297): more than 700 pages. Book IV ("Pilgrim guide") is about 40 pages.
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    Camino Stories or Myths

    It's a very sad story. A man meet a woman on the Camino: they were two pilgrims and walk together until Santiago... But, when they arrived, the woman told the man that she will enter in the benedictine's convent, just behind the cathedral. Since, the ghost of the pilgrim come back near the...
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    Camino Stories or Myths

    Here is a translation of Codex Calixtinus Book V: ZF2.04.gui_Murphy_en.htm You can order a translation of book IV: https://www.amazon.fr/Chronicle-Pseudo-Turpin-Calixtinus-Medieval-Renaissance-ebook/dp/B00OZPWFB8
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    Camino Stories or Myths

    Yes, Hopital de Obrigo: "One notable and special account is that of Suero de Quiñones, who in 1434 established the Passo Honroso ("Pass[age] of Honour") at the Órbigo bridge in the Kingdom of León (today's Castile and León in Spain)." Pas_d'armes
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    Camino Stories or Myths

    Sorry, this is a bit out of topic, but not only in the Middle Ages: in Pont-Saint-Esprit (south of France), in the 1950's, a strange affair is often related to ergotism: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2069953/
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    Camino Stories or Myths

    In Muxia, another legend tells about another "stone boat": Nuestra Señora de la Barca is the name of the Virgin Mary appeared in a stone boat in order to confort James in his mission. http://www.letsteacheurope-erasmus.site/muxia-and-the-secret-of-its-stones/
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    Camino Stories or Myths

    Yes, the Chanson de Roland was written during the XIth century, 3 centuries after the "facts" it is supposed to give the story. Furthermore, a sequel has been added later: Roland and Ferragut, the battle of Sahagun, and the whole story of Charlemagne and Santiago was written even later, during...
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    Camino Stories or Myths

    Thanks, I just ordered it. According to The Golden Legend: 1) James goes to Spain but without too much success (9 disciples and 1 conversion). He leaves 7 disciples then and goes back to Judea where Herode Aggripa kills him by decapitation. 2) The 2 disciples take its corpse and bring it in...
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    Camino Stories or Myths

    Najera (Roland vs Ferragut): legends-of-the-camino-de-santiago-the-battle-of-roland-and-the-giant-ferragut-no-236 Sahagun (battle of Carolus Magnus): https://compostela.co.uk/mythology/miracle-lances-sahagun/
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    Camino Stories or Myths

    Padron-galicia-st-james.html

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