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Article: Pilgrims progress in Midi-Pyrenees.(Travel)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 29, 2000
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France's Midi-Pyrenees is a region known for its independent spirit, hospitality and good food and wine, but centuries earlier, it was bloodied by the Hundred Years' War with the English and the crusade against the mysterious sect known as the Cathari, and it was the crossroads of one of the great medieval pilgrim journeys.
"God's walkers," as they were called, came from all over Europe, following paths marked by scallop shells, through France, across the Pyrenees into Spain. They were pilgrims on their way to Santiago de Compostela. Wherever the scallop shell appeared on house walls, farm doors and church portals, it served as a signal to the pilgrims that ...
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