Camino contests; Juloy pilgrims; quick updates

[Kathy Gower]

>Again, let me know if there is anything that I may find out for you.
>OK dear Ana? Pieter? Kat? et al.?
>Rosina

As always, Rosina, thank you for the reports an your generous offer... I'd
like to know more about this San Anton blessing..you remember I was most
fascinated with the San Antoine monastery outside Colmar in Northern France.
  There is a an important San Antoine Blvd. in Paris which I'll check out in
a month.

be well all once and future pilgrms,
Kathy


>SAN ANTON;
>After three centuries the venerable monastery has renewed its ancient
>custom
>of the "Blessing of the Animals". Despite the fact that the rite survived
>the
>dissolution of the order and the closing of the Monastery, it was
>discontinued
>in 1790.  Ovidio Campos, who established the first San Anton albergue in
>current times,  has formed an association dedicated to restore, as much as
>possible, rites and practices that may attest to San Anton's memorable and
>significant past. Unlike most "Blessings of the Animals" in the USA, the
>San Anton one
>includes an outdoor Mass.
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