Blessed are the poor in spirit! On top that?
on the Way of St. James, the church of Santiago, Villafranca del Bierzo, a Romanesque jewel, especially for its south portal, which combines beauty and symbolism. However, inside, it also contains items of interest. Elements that, unfortunately, we can only carry in our minds when we left, since we do not consent to bring any way other than in memory. And here is a lot of poverty, starting with some "poor in spirit" ...
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Because this parish, is a humble parish ... Despite the many pilgrims who pass through it, material goods are scarce, will only come here "pilgrims who have nowhere to fall dead"? Because the pastor has no money to pay for a sign in a position, a sign produced at least in computer and plastic.
However, the humility and poverty, hard work has been supplemented with willful. On a single folio, donated by a wealthy parishioner, and with modest pen donated by anonymous donor, has been stamping the eleventh commandment of the Law of God: .
"Do not photograph the temples of God in vain: for I the Lord am a jealous God, punishing the evil of which I photographed, from parents to children, unto the seventh generation ..."
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As if the ban on camera-captured images were little, a volunteer, there are always volunteers for the fundamentalist intransigence, has written below in pencil: "Do not talk."
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to those concerned. Go to pillory and stocks, for one year and one day to be fed with bread and water, while he watches the pilgrims on their way to the Way of St. James, where we want you to never put your feet up have been redeemed from all sins committed in the exercise of his office.
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Health and fraternity.