[Gocamino] No cell phones, computers or I pods

Mon Feb 14 01:19:11 PST 2011

Over the years I have been severely rapped on the knuckles for information
I've posted on my Camino blogs - and on forums.

I remember putting a photo on my blog of a copy of gorgeous 16thc Chemin St
Jacques map which I bought in France.  I was reprimanded for perpetuating a
forgery.  (The map is a forgery - but a very attractive one at that!)

Many years ago I made reference on my blog to the Codex Calixtinus being one
of the earliest pilgrim guidebooks.  That earned me outright condemnation!
"Did'nt I know that the Codex was never a guide book, was never meant to be
a giude book, that only three copies survived from the 12thc, and a few hand
copied versions from subsequent centuries. Why would I propogate a medieval
lie!!

The same thing happened when I mentioned Godesalc and the Le Puy route.
Whooeee - did I get a mouth full!!  'The so-called Le Puy Route is
a 1970's modern invention.  The good bishop's walk to Santiago was forgotten
for over 1000 years. In wasn't until 1866 that Léopold Delisle, conservator
at the National Library in Paris, rediscovered, in an authentic manuscript
of the Xth century the mention of the voyage to Compostela of the bishop of
Le Puy, Godescalc, in 951.(  No mention of a route (by sea? or by land
only?)
Read more here. http://www.saint-jacques.info/anglais/lepuy.htm

So, yes there are many legends and urban legends surrounding old St James!
Sil

On 14 February 2011 09:28, Wilna Wilkinson <twoxscotch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Sil
> I am not going to go into a debate about this. My reaction is not to the
> article, but to the reaction to the article. If this was the introduction to
> the book, it would have been unforgivable, of course. But it wasn't.  It was
> the erroneous unedited writing of a young person -- who needs guidance, not
> condemnation. Perhaps it is just me who still believes in  old fashioned
> constructive criticism rather than outright shock, horror, you stupid fool.
> Especially from pilgrims.
>
>
> On 14 February 2011 08:02, Sil <sillydoll at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Wilna,
>> I think the reaction was more - "Gees girl! Where did you dream up this
>> crap?"
>> "About a thousand years ago Saint James walked from Paris to Spain".
>> Huh??
>> "St. James, a popular figure amongst the Catholic and Christian faiths"
>> Huh??
>> The Route was called the Finisterrae?  WHAAAT?
>> If I had read this as an introduction to your book I would have been
>> horrified and honestly suspicious of anything else you wrote thereafter!
>>
>> sIL
>>
>>   On 14 February 2011 08:37, Wilna Wilkinson <twoxscotch at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Goodness, fellow pilgrims!
>>> What a storm in a teacup!
>>> A young student wrote an enthusiastic piece about a pilgrimage about
>>> which there is probably more conflicting and more contradictory information
>>> than any other historical event in the world.  If this same student wrote
>>> this same piece after he or she had walked the actual Camino, I could
>>> understand a few question marks. But the somewhat patronising comments and
>>> shocked criticism I have seen in this discussion about  this piece -- so
>>> much so that the university have felt it necessary to make a formal apology
>>> -- is really not worthy of people who have had the Camino experience. Where
>>> are the role models of the tolerant and kind and understanding people that
>>> come out the other side of the Camino experience? Why not just a gentle -
>>> and constructive correction of the facts -- if you 100% sure that the facts
>>> that YOU have are actually the correct ones?
>>>
>>> Think about it
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 14 February 2011 06:46, Sil <sillydoll at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I left a comment on the webpage and have since received this apology
>>>> from
>>>> Pierce Arrow:
>>>>
>>>> The Pierce Arrow would like to apologize for the factual, journalistic,
>>>> and
>>>> common knowledge errors placed within this article. The article has been
>>>> immediately removed online by the editors once realization of the amount
>>>> of
>>>> poor journalistic work that took place and we apologize for the
>>>> inconvenience.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12 February 2011 00:35, Kathy Gower <kathygower at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>> > more about Doug Challenger's work with his students on the Camino
>>>> > http://www.franklinpierce.edu/academics/studyabroad/camino/index.htm
>>>> > let this be a note to all of us 'academics' that we should check what
>>>> our
>>>> > students are saying....
>>>> > looking forward to hearing what others have planned for this new
>>>> Camino
>>>> > year...Kathy
>>>> >
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>>
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