[Gocamino] Pictures website. Maestro Mateo's works. Bells tolling.

[Blaroli at aol.com]

Hello you all,
There is a new Website that presents the Camino Frances in about 1,000 
pictures... in sequence.  The captions and short narrative can be read in Spanish, 
German, French, Japanese and English.
The web also shows the Aragonese Way in pictures, with captions in Spanish, 
English and French, and the Finisterra Camino with captions in English and 
Spanish. 
The site also contains much other information that can be read in several 
languages, but the number, denouement and quality of the pictures are 
particularly impressive.
The e-address is:
                                        www.santiago-compostela.net

The Santiago Cathedral's Museum,  which has closed completely (for the first 
time ever) for a week for renovations, will use the opportunity to further the 
 opening of subterranean  chambers and spaces,  heretofore used for 
warehousing,  in order to use them for the exhibition of a collection of original 
Maestro Mateo's  taken down throughout the various architectonic renewals of the 
Cathedral.  As most of us know, the original stone choir built by the Maestro 
has been reproduced splendidly and is a dazzling exhibition at the Museum; 
however, the pieces that will be brought forth and exhibited are original works of 
the Maestro that have been out of view for centuries and centuries.  While 
there is no specific timetable for completion of the undertaking, curators have 
been working on the pieces for many months, and it is hoped that they will be 
on view by the next Apostle's Feast Day.
Next Friday, March 11, the bells of the 652 churches in Madrid will toll for 
five minutes, at 7:30 a.m., in memory of the tragedy that took place on that 
date and at that hour, last year, at the Atocha railroad station in which 192 
people on their way to work lost their lives.  Msgr. Barrio, the Santiago 
Archbishop, has informed that the bells of all the churches in the Diocese, 
including those of the Cathedral will also toll at the same time in communal 
mourning.
The Xunta has announced that the entire province will observe a day of 
mourning, and that all schools, government centers and commercial establishment will 
observe five minutes of silence at noon. 
Those of us so far away can, at least, pray for peace everywhere.   
Warm regards,
Rosina