Travelling in good faith and good faith alon (Re:millions...St.francis...)

[Barry Evans]

Perry, Once again, no one's attacking your beliefs! Some of us are interested
in the history of the camino (I'm writing an article). It DOES matter to us,
not as a matter of faith, but as a matter of seeing how much truth there is to
the old legends.
I was hoping, in starting this discussion, that someone would either come up
with some piece of history to confirm or deny the legend of a million pilgrims
a year walking the camino, to weave that into my own story (eg there's ample
historical evidence, I think, that St. Francis made a pilgrimage to Rome, which
seems to be lacking for the Santiago story). So far, we've had a lot of
opinions, but nothing you could call evidence one way or the other, which may
be where we'll have to leave this.

But meanwhile, please afford us the courtesy of discussing this without this
constant sniping at our interest! Just delete anything with "million" in the
subject line, you don't have to read it or be bothered by it!
barryevans

--- Perry Shirley <lazarus3kaHOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> I am writing in response to what i've read from all of you since joining the
> list and specifically to Pieter whose email i've included at the end of
> this:
>
> Many Thanks Pieter!
> thank you for voicing a concern of mine...why does it matter if st.francis
> walked the road to santiago or not? or how many pilgrims walked in the old
> days? to me, all that matters is that people continue to walk it every year,
> all in good faith and that is by itself a remarkable thing. simply having so
> many over such a long period of time beleive in one and same stretch of land
> is enough.
>
> At 19 years old, by next summer i shall be walking the road to Santiago, in
> good faith and regardless of the number of my fellow pilgrims who have
> walked it or what saint walked it.
>
> To me, at least, faith goes beyond numbers and names, its in the heart and
> one beleives what one beleives and if i beleive in my heart and soul that
> St. Framcis walked it then no one will make me think otherwise.
>
> Perry Shirley
> California, USA
> lazarus3kahotmail.com
>
>
> >From: pieter pannevis <p.pannevisaCHELLO.NL>
> >Reply-To: Road to Santiago Pilgrimage <GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU>
> >To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
> >Subject: Re: photos, million per year
> >Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 22:38:07 +0100
> >
> >As we do not know if St. James was really buried in Santiago and his bones
> >are there!
> >Does it really matter?
> >To me it matters that I'm in a long line of pilgrims over the centuries and
> >in doing the Camino in the same time uphold this tradition.
> >as always...
> >...Ultreya to you all and good health
> >pieter and trigo from holland
> >mailto:p.pannevisachello.nl
>
>
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