{"id":17941,"date":"2024-08-20T12:15:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T19:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=17941"},"modified":"2024-08-20T12:15:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T19:15:21","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-the-embrace-of-the-virgin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-the-embrace-of-the-virgin\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: the Embrace of the Virgin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

F<\/span>inally after another climb, Nina and I came to a monumental larger-than-life statue of the Virgin Mary, arms spread like a protective mother embracing her children. This is marked on the maps variously as “Notre-Dame de Versus” or “de Vermus” or even “de Vernus”. It possibly means something like “Our Lady of Virtues”. She sits on a volcanic outcrop overlooking the valley of the River Lot. It’s a truly inspiring view, and I rested a while in the shadow of the Virgin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Date: <\/strong>25 August 2023
Place:<\/strong> between Saint-C\u00f4me-d’Olt and Espalion, Aveyron D\u00e9partement, Region of Occitanie, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maps!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finally after another climb, Nina and I came to a monumental larger-than-life statue of the Virgin Mary, arms spread like a protective mother embracing her children. This is marked on the maps variously as “Notre-Dame de Versus” or “de Vermus” or even “de Vernus”. It possibly means something like “Our Lady of Virtues”. She sits on a volcanic outcrop overlooking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day-2023","category-via-podiensis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17941"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17949,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17941\/revisions\/17949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}