the Compostelle Route 2
| When Conques received in donation the Perse monastery in 1060, the Compostelle pilgrimage is a century old and in a rapid expansion. That monastery on the Lot riverside welcome pilgrims who came to meditate on the Saint Hilarian's relics and Conques abbey developed that establishment on the Via Podensis |
| the Conques road |
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detail attracts the observant visitor's attention: nothing in the sculpted iconography
of Perse church, inside or outside,
has something to do with the Compostelle route. There is no shell. Neither capital
nor modillion has something to do with the pilgrimage and Ste Foy also misses.
Pilgrims consider that church belongs to the Compostelle route only because it's
on their road. Can we think that Conques deliberately
separate Perse of the pilgrim's road? In that case, why Conques rebuilt that monastery?
And why it rebuilt it in that form? Which are the Conques motivations? |
| Saint James |
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On the contrary of the usual statues and sculptures of the Spain apostle, the sculpture situated among apostles around the Virgin on the tympanum, and which bears the IACOBUS'name on the unrolled parchment it holds in its hand, has none of the St James's attributes (shell, Book, stick, hat, bag and flask).
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