photos, million per year

[Barry Evans]

Bom dia!
Someone previously quoted an old account that when St. Francis walked
the camino, he was in the company of a million fellow peregrinos.
However, I understand there's no real evidence, just wishful
thinking, that St. Francis did actually walk it.
STILL enjoying your photos!
Barry

--- izhar <izharaNETCABO.PT> wrote:
> Thanks Barry for your input.
>
> In his book "Iberia"  James A. Michener says:" We can speak with
> accuracy of
> this vast movement of people - the incredible number  of more than
> half a
> million moved along the road each year- because in 1130 what is
> generally
> held to be the world's first travel guide was written, describing
> the
> glories and hardships of this route. It was written at the request
> of the
> Church .............. by a French priest, Aymery de Picaud..:"
> I tend to agree with your  opinion that tits very unlikely that
> half a
> million people per year would do the way when the population of
> Europe was
> 80 million total.
> Maybe the key is "It was written at the request of the Church .."
> that
> wanted to make it bigger than life ??
>
> Wishing you a happy day,
> Vale bene in pace deorum (Stay with good health in the peace of the
> gods)
>
> Izhar Perlman
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Road to Santiago Pilgrimage [mailto:GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Barry Evans
> Sent: sabado, 1 de Dezembro de 2001 8:01
> To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
> Subject: photos, million per year
>
>
> I've just spent a dreamy 20 minutes savoring your photos...thank
> you.
> So evocative, atmospheric. Thank you for sharing.
> barryevans
>
> ps we discussed briefly the "million pilgrims a year" claim a few
> weeks ago here, and i think the consensus was that it must have
> been
> hugely exaggerated, at a time when the total pre-plague population
> of
> western europe was around 80 million.
>
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>
> "We don't realize that thought is *creating* the world we imagine
> we live
> in; we think that thought is merely *describing* it objectively.
> (Joan
> Tollifson)
>
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Barry Evans    (707) 476 8317
217 Second Street, Eureka, CA 95501
Our camino photos: http://us.geocities.com/barryevans9/camino

"We don't realize that thought is *creating* the world
we imagine we live in; we think that thought is merely
*describing* it objectively. (Joan Tollifson)

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