Bringing a stone to Compostela

[Kathy Gower]

I have actually read something similar, but having to do with bringing the
scallop shells back, to be ground as lime, to be used as mortar in the
                Templar Church at Rosslyn in Scotland and also a church in
Portgual, I believe. It wasn't the stone that was significant, but rather
the scallop
                shells which the pilgrims brought back....


>From: Maryjane Dunn <mjdunnaTXUCOM.NET>
>Reply-To: Road to Santiago Pilgrimage <GOCAMINOapete.uri.edu>
>To: GOCAMINOapete.uri.edu
>Subject: Re: Bringing a stone to Compostela
>Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 10:10:37 -0500
>
>Hi Elyn--
>There's nothing so grandiose or ritualistic in this story. At this moment I
>cannot put my hands on where I read the story, but it's basically that
>while
>the Cathedral was being built, pilgrims were to carry lime (limestone?)
>from
>Triacastela? to the kilns in Compostela where it would be used in the
>construction. I've looked in our bibliography, but the article just doesn't
>jump out at me, but I'll keep looking.
>Maryjane
>


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