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@ brisceaux
2025-02-25 02:18:30
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Camino Frances | Day 23
Foncebadon to Ponferrada
We arrived at the Iron Cross on this day. There is a tradition of carrying a rock or stone with you from where you began your journey and leaving it here at the Iron Cross. It is to signify the carrying of the burden of sins and or sorrows and then leaving them at the cross. The weather fit the mood as it was clear many had brought some burdens with them and they were taking time to reflect and pray. I also took time to do the same although for nothing in particular, just the culmination of life's burdens, sorrows, joys, happiness, the good, the bad, and the ugly. I wasn't going to bring a rock but I had told some friends the story of this place and their 2 little girls gave me a rock to take. So "Rocky" traveled with me from home and is now resting at the Iron Cross.
Also, we started getting into some beautiful mountain terrain again.
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