Carrying stones

[Malcolm]

Do people carry stones etc on the "other" caminos? If so, where do they leave them?

 

[SYates]

I only ever carried a stone for the Cruz de Ferro, but I have occasionally brought a stone from the camino back home. SY

 

[Peregrinopaul]

I placed a stone at the cross between Portocamba and Cercedelo on the Via de la Plata. That's in the mountains before Ourense.

 

[Hope0925]

I plan on laying mine wherever the spirit moves me!

 

[whariwharangi]

I wasn't aware there was a shortage of stones in Spain. Who knew?

 

[wayfarer]

Welcome Malcolm, carry a stone by all means if you wish and as @Hope0925 said, lay it where the spirit moves you.
Buen Camino.

 

[MKalcolm M]

I carried a stone from home, chosen on an old pilgrimage site here in Galloway, on which my daughter wrote "Dad" on one side and "Grandad" on the other, in memory of my father. I planned to leave it at the sea in Finistere, but actually got fond enough of it that I brought it home, and it now sits on my mantelpiece as a living memory. I also followed the tradition of picking up a stone while walking when I had a question, and putting it down when and where I got my answer. This did get some bemused questions "You have to climb up this hill and you are carrying rocks as well?"

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Do people carry stones etc on the "other" caminos? If so, where do they leave them?

Peg and I dropped 3 at the Cruz de Ferro on the Canino Frances and I carried another that I picked up from a beach on Cape Cod, Massachusetts all the way to the beach at Finisterre. That was not quite "another" camino but not quite the Camino Frances either.

 

[Isca-camigo]

I bought a little stone from a stream that runs into the sea at a place called Saltburn in the north east of England, my dad's ashes were scattered on the beach next to the stream. I had big plans for the stone, but on the very 1st day over the Pyrenees, I felt so at peace with everything, that I knew this was the place for the stone. Sometimes I look back and think couldn't I have hung on to it and took it on more of the journey with me but in that very moment on the Camino I knew this was it.

 

[Isca-camigo]

But in answer to your question yes people do leave them on other caminos and it is where you feel you want to leave them, obviously there is some places which take more stones than other, high points, crosses, high points with crosses and places of beauty or peace/stillness.

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

Do people carry stones etc on the "other" caminos? If so, where do they leave them?

Hi Malcolm, that will be no problem leave your stone where it feels good for you.
Wish you well and a Buen Camino, Peter.

 

[Smallest_Sparrow]

there is this at San Andres de Teixido


when I walked the Primitivo in 2012 I also saw this, although it wasn't clear to me if this was just something new someone was trying to get started. I saw a notice about it in Al Acebo, and it was located somewhere after the Chapel of Santa Barbara, past Barbeitos but before Fonsagrada...maybe someone else knows more about it

 

[Marion-SantiagoInLove]

I pick my stones on the Way, when they call me. Their significance come to me as I walk, but when I drop them, I know.
I left (actually, tried to throw it in the ocean, but it's quite far from the top!) my first stone and buried pictures in Fisterra after walking on France's routes, the C del Norte and Primitivo. My second stone was left at the Quintana Square (after the Plata), under St James' watch. The third one was left at the Cruz del Ferro.
I don't pick stones when I'm on the Camino but not doing a pilgrimage. No reason for it apart I don't feel like doing it.
I believe the object and place don't matter, but the meaning of the ritual and its significance do...

 

[Deleted member 36903]

All the pilgrims attending the blessing after evening Mass in Barcelos were given a small cockle shell a written blessing and a pebble. Both the shell and the pebble had been decorated with the cross of St James and the priest who welcomed us into the vestry of his church to sign the register of pilgrims, said that we could leave it on the Camino (Portuguese) at a place we thought appropriate or keep it.

 

[Malcolm]

there is this at San Andres de Teixido
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when I walked the Primitivo in 2012 I also saw this, although it wasn't clear to me if this was just something new someone was trying to get started. I saw a notice about it in Al Acebo, and it was located somewhere after the Chapel of Santa Barbara, past Barbeitos but before Fonsagrada...maybe someone else knows more about it
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I thought El Acebo might be a likely place, since it's just inside Galicia. Thanks for that, and for the pictures.