[Gocamino] a serious medieval question or three

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It is called prayer dear Rebekah :)
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From: Rebekah Scott <rebrites at yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 05:32:12 
To: Miriam Martinez<miriam.martinez at pb.com>; <gocamino-bounces at oakapple.net>; Kathy Gower<kathygower at hotmail.com>; oakapple<gocamino at oakapple.net>; <johnniewalker-santiago at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Gocamino] a serious medieval question or three

"three spiritual wishes?" What the blazes is THAT about? Those tour guides need to tune out the Disney channel for a while!


Rebekah Scott 
www.moratinoslife.blogspot.com

"Let us read and dance, and so we will not hurt the rest of the world." 
--- Voltaire


--- On Tue, 12/8/09, johnniewalker-santiago at hotmail.com <johnniewalker-santiago at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: johnniewalker-santiago at hotmail.com <johnniewalker-santiago at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Gocamino] a serious medieval question or three
> To: "Miriam Martinez" <miriam.martinez at pb.com>, gocamino-bounces at oakapple.net, "Kathy Gower" <kathygower at hotmail.com>, "oakapple" <gocamino at oakapple.net>
> Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 10:02 PM
> I suspect the "loft" that was
> mentioned is a wide corridor which runs around the entire
> cathedral - it is open on one side to the nave and transepts
> and on the other has access to the roof at various points.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miriam Martinez <miriam.martinez at pb.com>
> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 15:52:01 
> To: Kathy Gower<kathygower at hotmail.com>;
> oakapple<gocamino at oakapple.net>
> Subject: Re: [Gocamino] a serious medieval question or
> three
> 
> Hi Cathy!
> I did hear about the burning of the clothes on the roof and
> saw the place where this supposedly happened from the tour
> guide of the Cathedral Roof Tour. He also mentioned that the
> pilgrims could actually sleep inside the Cathedral. There is
> a loft on the way to the roof where the pilgrims could bed
> for the night...
> 
> As to the spiritual wishes, I though you made the spiritual
> request when placing your hand on the Tree of Jesse. I did,
> but next time placing the hand on my heart will have to
> do...   
> 
> Regards,
> Miriam        
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gocamino-bounces at oakapple.net
> [mailto:gocamino-bounces at oakapple.net]
> On Behalf Of Kathy Gower
> Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 3:27 PM
> To: oakapple
> Subject: [Gocamino] a serious medieval question or three
> 
> I received this request and wonder if anyone out there
> knows the answers...(this isn't a quiz)  I have sent
> this to a couple of listserves..."Got a question for you:
> our tour guide at the cathedral in Santiago assured us that
> in the middle ages pilgrims would burn their clothes in a
> large stone tub on the roof (visible when you go out the
> north exit and look back at the cathedral) and would be
> given "new" (or at least clean) replacement clothes by the
> church. I said I'd never heard of that--have you? Also, she
> said that the botafumiero wasn't used to make the cathedral
> smell better but was used for some combo of disinfecting and
> blessing. Again, have you heard this? And third--that when
> you enter a church for the first time, you put your hand on
> your heart and make 3 spiritual wishes. That's why she
> thinks it isn't important that the Tree of Jesse may not be
> accessible for pilgrims to touch--after all, the tradition
> (??) is to make 3 spiritual wishes.... no need to touch
> any!
>  thing...."Just wondering. Maybe you can put these
> questions out there to others who might know something?
> 
> 
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