City - Santiago de Compostela State - Country - Spain
About
For four centuries during the Middle Ages, half a million pilgrims a year made the lengthy and difficult journey from their homelands to the northwestern corner of Spain. There, in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, according to documented history, lay the remains of St. James, the patron saint of Spain. A pilgrimage to Compostela ranked with those to Jerusalem and Rome as the most sacred of journeys.
This documents the 'happening' at mass in the Cathedral of Santiago, Spain. The Cathedral was built to honour the tomb of St. James (Jacabeo). The story is that the priests found the natural aroma of the arriving Pelegrinos to be too much, and opted to have a very large incence burner to be swung to great heights across and above the main alters... and there by covering the odour (as a woman would spray her lover coming in from the barn yard). Seven men are used to pull and raise this burner, with a resulting swoosh in the air as it swings at great speed above the heads of the pelegrinos!
4-6 Million Pelegrinos are expected during 2004, to make this a journey.
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