[Gocamino] Fw: [saintjames] Re: Stone Story

[Sue Kenney]

> Thank you for this wonderful story Rosina.
>
> In October I had a long discussion (translated) with Jesus Jato and he
> pointed out the stones that had been carried by pilgrims from their 
> country
> which he then used to build the walls of the refugio. I  promised to 
> return
> with a stone one day.
>
> Here's another tale. Just before I arrived at Cruz de Ferro on my first
> Camino, I stopped in a bar for a cafe con leche and the woman there asked 
> if
> I brought a stone from my country to leave at the cross; as this was the
> custom. Dissappointed, I told her that I didn't have a stone from home. 
> Then
> she said to me, "Just pick up a stone and put your country into it." Since
> over the last few weeks I had been putting sorrow into the stones I picked
> up along the way, I was familiar with the practice of putting 'intentions'
> into stones. I picked up a Spanish stone and left my country, Canada, at
> Cruz de Ferro.
>
> I have seen the picture you mentioned and it's stunning.
>
> Love and light,
> Sue
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> <sue.kenney at simpatico.ca>
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 1:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Gocamino] Stone Story
>
>
>> Hi Sue,
>> In the Camino the convention of leaving a stone at the foot of the Cruz 
>> de
>> Ferro is many centuries old.  Ancient pilgrims were encouraged, indeed
>> requested, to bring stones, rocks, etc. to Santiago to be used in the
>> building of the Cathedral.  Many pilgrims started out from places as
>> distant as France and other similar far away points, carrying the stones
>> for the purpose.  A few died from the effort, or simply were unable to
>> continue, and their companions would carry on their "burden" to a
>> prominent and quite  visible Cross that had been erected on the heights 
>> of
>> the Ebro.... which is the present site of the Cruz de Ferro. Most of the
>> stones had the name of the original pilgrim inscribed on them.
>> That ancient custom metamorphosed into the present practice of leaving
>> "one's burden", whatever that might be, in the form of a stone at the 
>> foot
>> of the Cruz de Ferro.

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