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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Agree Preston.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>If a person has one reason that should be right. Even for curiosity.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>What is a pity is to loose the many dimensions of a pilgrimage. And no one of us could tell the other wich is better or to send a person to another way.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>The benefits of pilgrimage start even before doing it.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Jose</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: Preston Pittman </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 1:28 PM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: San Juan de la Pena</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Leonard & Dr. Romero, we had a discussion on reasons people make the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Pilgrimage to Santiago (I think last summer). A vast majority of people do</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>seem to make the pilgrimage for deeply religious reasons (piety?) but I</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>think enlightenment and spiritual knowledge, which Leonard seems to be</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>suggesting, seem to me to also be valid reasons which could spring from a</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>religious impulse.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Leonard mentions the Grail legends - yes, many places along the Camino or</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>near it in the Pyrenees, have associations with the Grail Legends.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Immediately comes to mind San Juan de la Pena, just off the Camino if you</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>take the Somport entrance into Spain. The monks of San Juan de la Pena were</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>said to have protected the "true" Holy Grail for many centuries until a</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Muslim incursion into Aragon forced them to send it to Valencia for greater</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>protection. Other "Grail" locations lie along the part of the Camino that</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>stretches through southern France to Arles- not to forget the Cathar and</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>"Holy Blood/Holy Grail" sites.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>>From: "Teruel, Dr. Jose Romero (WDC)" <terueljraPAHO.ORG></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>Reply-To: Road to Santiago Pilgrimage <GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>Subject: Re: Nicholas Flamel</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 12:41:12 -0500</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>Leonard</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>You are missing the best part of it or maybe you did not understand the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>meaning</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>of this pilgrimage (Camino)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>Jose</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>From: lmorris</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 10:29 PM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>Subject: Re: Nicholas Flamel</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>Hi Preston,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> After reading about Nicholas Flamel and the Pilgrimages to</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>Santiago,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>I</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>would say that the Pilgrimages to Santiago are a quest for learning and</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>not one of piety, If one is to go on a pilgrimage for piety reasons then</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>maybe one should do a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. This is interesting</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>stuff...In Medieval Europe Spain became a sort of magical place,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>harbouring forbidden knowledge, after all didn't the Grails story come</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>from here and at about this time?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>any thoughts...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>leonard</FONT>
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