Just wanting to know

[scruffy1]

The Plaza del Obradoiro is a natural magnet attracking all sorts of people, pilgrims, tourists, student demonstartions of the university there, those curious and those just trying to survive. The gentleman pictured below was one trying to survive and remains in my memory as an almost permanent fixture in the Plaza and I was sorry to hear at my last arrival in Santiago that he was very ill and not at his usual post. Just wondering if anyone has seen him lately and has he returned to his old "position"?

S.

 

[Kialoa3]

He was there last month and seemed to be alright.

 

[JohnnieWalker]

He was there the other day- I'm sure!

 

[ivar]

I saw him two days ago.

 

[fraluchi]

Just wondering if anyone has seen him lately and has he returned to his old "position"?

With some time upon one's sleeves , it might be possible to discover him by watching the Santiago webcams http://www.crtvg.es :roll: though I don't know where the old man's "usual position" is supposed to be. :cry:

 

[scruffy1]

Thank you all, no, I don't know the man, have never even talked with him but he was always there. Santiago, like my own Jerusalem, has the potential to create a personal Joycean epiphany of spirituality, a state which is becoming more and more difficult to achieve as the years go by. Sister Maria Asuncion has moved me to tears more than once, the pilgrim's mass can be moving though sadly not always. Alongside the pilgrims, the many churches-(my favorite? Santa María del Sar) the feeling one achieves in simply arriving, there are also many other types of experiences. Again, Santiago like Jerusalem, possesses alongside the divine , such a collection of beggars hobbling through the streets, gypsies-here we have an entire neighborhood of the Romany people, hucksters, flim-flam, and chicanery which must be seen to be believed. With age, I seek permanency, something reliable and anything that seems to always be there. Thus not seeing this figure and wondering about his fate had worried me then and these thoughts returned now as I plan my next pilgrimage. Thank you all again.

 

[JohnnieWalker]

Here is the story of the man himself:

http://thewayofsaintjamesjewels.wordpre ... zapatones/