{"id":18444,"date":"2024-12-12T09:59:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T17:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=18444"},"modified":"2024-12-12T10:06:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T18:06:13","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-santiago-in-conques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-santiago-in-conques\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Santiago in Conques"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I<\/span>n addition to holding the relics of Sainte-Foy<\/a> and therefore being a site of pilgrimage in itself, Conques is the first major religious site on the pilgrimage route from Le Puy-en-Velay to Santiago de Compostela. Of course there is a small shrine to Saint James the Apostle in his depiction as a pilgrim (Santiago Peregrino \/ Saint-Jacques P\u00e8lerin). While this little statue is not as flashy or impressive as some of those I encountered on the Way, there’s a sort of simple majesty to it. In particular, the expression on his face seems to me to have the same sort of weariness that one sees on the faces of the pilgrims in the caf\u00e9s and g\u00eetes along the Way. And… is he winking at us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Date: <\/strong>27 August 2023
Place:<\/strong> Conques, Aveyron D\u00e9partement, Region of Occitanie, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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In addition to holding the relics of Sainte-Foy and therefore being a site of pilgrimage in itself, Conques is the first major religious site on the pilgrimage route from Le Puy-en-Velay to Santiago de Compostela. Of course there is a small shrine to Saint James the Apostle in his depiction as a pilgrim (Santiago Peregrino \/ Saint-Jacques P\u00e8lerin). While this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18444","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\/18444","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=18444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18449,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18444\/revisions\/18449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}