{"id":19537,"date":"2025-12-04T12:20:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=19537"},"modified":"2025-12-04T12:20:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:20:33","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-a-last-hurrah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-a-last-hurrah\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: a Last Hurrah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A<\/span>fter walking the Way of the Cross, I returned to the sanctuary of the Black Virgin to find Vespers already underway. I joined in with many other pilgrims there. Afterwards, we prayed the Angelus, and then the priest gave us all a blessing, as well as a holy card with the Memorare<\/em> in French and a medal depicting Our Lady of Rocamadour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then a number of us had a sort of farewell dinner, as for many of the pilgrims I have met, Rocamadour is their final pilgrimage destination. From left: Bruno, \u00c1vila, Adeline, Paul, me<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Date: <\/strong>01 September 2023
Place:<\/strong> Rocamadour, 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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