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The Shell in my hometown

Peter Fransiscus

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This picture was taken outside our local hospital named ,
" St. Jacob ziekenhuis ".


They also have a pilgrim room where Pilgrims can stay on there way from the north .

Surprice me with pictures from your home town about St. James.

Wish you all well , Peter .
 

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Hi Peter. Knew we could trust you to start such a positive thread!

I share this picture of the entrance stone of the Sint Jacobus church in St-Truiden, my town of birth and where I now work.

Stone made possible by the local Confraternity of St James , the local parish and the council.

In the link also pic of a wooden statue of St James. In 1215 there were already pilgrims stopping at this church en route to Santiago.

http://openkerken.be/church_detail.asp?churchID=57

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I am both lucky and unlucky to be surounded by shells and arrows. The Camino Vezeley passes near our home... there are a few local varients so I find arrows and markers all around me. I'm lucky because it means I can walk on the camino whenever I want... and unlucky because it is a constant reminder... and very often I wish I could just go and walk and walk and walk :D

Here are 2 photos I took last year a few days before leaving for the VdlP... I met friends in a restaurant in Perigueux and followed these shells into the old town from my car parking space. The following day I was at a wedding in St Astier; the venue falls almost on the camino path... inside the main room was a huge coat of arms painted on the wall. I could almost feel the camino pulling me back... the following day we left for Bordeaux for my flight to Seville.

Perigueux.jpg St Astier.jpg
 
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Quite a few, but visible in this window, found in St James Church, Sydney - the oldest extant church in Australia, designed by convict architect, Francis Greenway. In the middle of the legal precinct!

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By Whiteghost.ink (Wikimedia Commons) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
 
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