{"id":19179,"date":"2025-09-16T08:37:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=19179"},"modified":"2025-09-16T08:37:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:37:46","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-remembrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-remembrance\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Remembrance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

T<\/span>hese sorts of cairns may be found everywhere on the Camino. Usually, they’re a small pile of stones. Traditionally, hiking cairns are a navigation aid, a way of marking the correct way on a not-so-well-defined trail.\u00a0On the Camino, which is typically well-marked, they usually serve a different purpose. There’s a small cairn, and pilgrims will leave a new stone to mark their passing. Sometimes, as here or more spectacularly at Cruz de Ferro<\/a> in Spain, they represent a prayer or a burden left behind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This particular cairn is most likely in remembrance of a deceased loved one or in thanksgiving for a prayer answered. I’ve seen both of these indicated by the French word “souvenir”, which we can see here, and which literally means “remembrance”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Date: <\/strong>31 August 2023
Place:<\/strong> between Lacapelle-Marival and Gramat, Lot D\u00e9partement, Region of Occitanie, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The site I’ve been using for my daily maps, Gronze.com<\/a>, while otherwise great, unfortunately doesn’t have maps for this variant. So here’s a map from my book Practical Pilgrimage<\/em><\/a> showing the entirety of the three main variants and larger sub-variants. I walked the GR6 from Figeac to Rocamadour and the GR46 on to Cahors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These sorts of cairns may be found everywhere on the Camino. Usually, they’re a small pile of stones. Traditionally, hiking cairns are a navigation aid, a way of marking the correct way on a not-so-well-defined trail.\u00a0On the Camino, which is typically well-marked, they usually serve a different purpose. There’s a small cairn, and pilgrims will leave a new stone to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19179","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\/19179","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=19179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19182,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19179\/revisions\/19182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}