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I know that it is customary on the Camino Frances to place one's personal rock at the Cruz de Fiero, but since I am walking the Camino Portugues next spring, I was wondering if there is a common location that Pilgrims on this Camino place their rocks?
As it stands now, I'm thinking of placing it at the base of the James memorial on Mount Santiaguino in Padron, but am open to other ideas.
Blessings,
Clark
Too much is made of this ritual, in my mind, and you should not feel that your camino is incomplete if you don't do it. There are many good arguments for not piling rocks anywhere. With 300,000 pilgrims per year, it gets to be an esthetic and maintenance problem.I know that it is customary on the Camino Frances to place one's personal rock at the Cruz de Fiero
Too much is made of this ritual, in my mind, and you should not feel that your camino is incomplete if you don't do it. There are many good arguments for not piling rocks anywhere. With 300,000 pilgrims per year, it gets to be an esthetic and maintenance problem.
Yesterday near the lighthouse in Finisterre I saw two Spanish women furiously dismantling a ring of small stone cairns. They seemed rather annoyed at this little pilgrim "monument".Too much is made of this ritual, in my mind, and you should not feel that your camino is incomplete if you don't do it. There are many good arguments for not piling rocks anywhere. With 300,000 pilgrims per year, it gets to be an esthetic and maintenance problem.
I know that it is customary on the Camino Frances to place one's personal rock at the Cruz de Fiero, but since I am walking the Camino Portugues next spring, I was wondering if there is a common location that Pilgrims on this Camino place their rocks?
As it stands now, I'm thinking of placing it at the base of the James memorial on Mount Santiaguino in Padron, but am open to other ideas.
Blessings,
Clark
The most appropriate resting place for your rock is the one where you found it.I know that it is customary on the Camino Frances to place one's personal rock at the Cruz de Fiero, but since I am walking the Camino Portugues next spring, I was wondering if there is a common location that Pilgrims on this Camino place their rocks?
As it stands now, I'm thinking of placing it at the base of the James memorial on Mount Santiaguino in Padron, but am open to other ideas.
Blessings,
Clark
Hmmm maybe not organic material. I come from a country with strict biosecurity. We would not be allowed to import any untreated wood because of the risk of bringing in disease.Is this a Jewish custom which pilgrims adopted I wonder? I think it is a nice sentiment as stones have a permanency which flowers don't, beautiful and all as they are. I always brought small marble pebbles from home with my deceased parents names on them and left them in places I thought appropriate. Perhaps stones are now becoming the locket fastened to the bridge scourge of many cities. I think if I am lucky enough to do another camino, I may just bring a small stick from home next time, at least it will disintegrate over time.
Is this a Jewish custom which pilgrims adopted I wonder? I think it is a nice sentiment as stones have a permanency which flowers don't, beautiful and all as they are. I always brought small marble pebbles from home with my deceased parents names on them and left them in places I thought appropriate. Perhaps stones are now becoming the locket fastened to the bridge scourge of many cities. I think if I am lucky enough to do another camino, I may just bring a small stick from home next time, at least it will disintegrate over time.
I like the idea expressed by the phrase "'fast-food' de filosofía zen" in the article. Zen on the go? Zen quickie?Although I realise that for some people placing a stone at places like the Cruz de Ferro is an important personal moment I would personally rather see pilgrims move more gently through the landscape without feeling the urge to leave such visual reminders of our passing. To me it feels unnecessary and self-serving.
http://www.elperiodico.com/es/barce...torres-de-piedras-amenaza-ecosistemas-6214358
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