GEORGIANA'S GEMS from her "THE WAY OF SAINT JAMES" [1920/2008]

Pilgrimage is of all people, faiths, sferes and ages - for hunters, gatherers and smorgasbordians:
Er is geen weg naar de vrede; vrede is de weg - Simon Vinkenoog
Truth is a pathless land - Jiddu Krishnamurti

"At Bryn Mawr Miss King became a tradition and a cult; now she is a legend."

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Reading The Way of Saint James by Ms Georgiana Goddard King (first/last print 1920/2008) for the 3rd time makes a good opportunity to collect the gems she is giving us in such great numbers. The first time I read this classic I was fully overwhelmed by her poetic style and great authority in many fields; the second reading reveiled the structure of this masterpiece and now I'm certainly very ready, most willing and hopefully able to feast on all the gems of epic writing in this book and share them with you. Any comments and suggestions are most welcome!

Former Georgiana Gems on http://www.pilgrimage-to-santiago.com :

Georgiana's Gems #1 bees -
Georgiana's Gems #2 Vézelay & la Madeleine -
Georgiana's Gems #3 Magdalen - Mary Magdalena -
Georgiana's Gems #4 Santiago's tau staff -
Georgiana's Gems #5 Fisterra blues -
Georgiana's Gems #6 Santiago as guide of souls -
Georgiana's Gems #7 Lusitania (Portugal) and Lug -
Georgiana's Gems #8 more King books online -
Georgiana's Gems #9 Iria Flavia (Padr6n) -

Future Georgiana's Gems may follow here on birds (doves), cypress, vista, faces, beards, Daniel, Ester, Judith, Sheba, Heavenly and Mortal Twins, axe and mallet, Paul, Nazarean, syncretism (111-294, 307, 308, 311, 313, 357, 367; law of, 307), heresy, Priscillian (I-59, III-334, 345; II-222, 237, III-237, 264, 316; III-624) and references to connected authors and books. Suggestions are welcome! Mind due: we're no experts in these fields so if you know better please enlighten us!

See new gem on Moraime below *

In The Way of Saint James Ms King does not mention: Beda, Cee, Holy Company, lizard, Lug, Lugh, Luso, Queimada.

The Way of Saint James contains FOUR BOOKS in 3 Volumes:

Volume I: BOOK ONE: THE PILGRIMAGE: chapters I-V: pp 1-134
Volume I: BOOK TWO: THE WAY: chapters I-VIII: 135-463
Volume II: BOOK TWO: THE WAY: chapters IX-XVI: 1-514
Volume III: BOOK THREE: THE BOURNE: chapters I-VII: 1-370
Volume III: BOOK FOUR: HOMEWARD: chapters I-III: 371-710

NB: It may be confusing that BOOK TWO: THE WAY is divided over Volume I (chapters I – VIII) and Volume II (chapters IX – XVI) so pp 135-463 occur twice in the 2nd BOOK!

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* 5-4-14 King – The Way of Saint James: “Moraime”

Volume 2 - The Way 364 - Of a truth, the affinities of this wayside church are various: that of the planning, with eastern bay and [Thunder- AND MONOGRAPHS 364 S. Isidore and S. Zita WAY OF S.JAMES] the iconostasis, is with S. Juan de la Pena, and Ujue* on the one hand, and on the other, with Escalada and Mazote: that of the high aisles, equal and roofed alike, is with such sanctuaries as S. Julian of Moraime and S. Marina de Aguas Santas. One thing it is not : it is not in the least regional.

The Bourne 210 - He also visited Finisterre, and between the two places, S. Julian de Moraime. "On the twentieth, by a hard road, up a hill, accompanied by the said Giuseppe Martinez in whose house I slept, I came to S. Julian de Moraime, which belongs to the Padri Cassinensi [i. e. Benedictines]. It is a place of no rarity. I drank the chocolate the Prior gave me. " 

216 - The church at Moraime is very curious, [Moraime] set into a hillside above the sea, so that you go down steps into the porch and more into the church, and what was a squat chapel without, is seen a fair arid lofty sanctuary. The walls outside have the huge arches that appear at Puerto Marin, and also in two churches near Orense with which S. Julian has more [I HISPANIC NOTES THE BOURNE 217] affinity, Aguas Santas and La Junquera.

But, though hidden by accretions and disguised otherwise at times, they also appear on the cathedrals of Santiago and Orense, the French trait being pretty

nearly naturalized, and likely to be second or third-hand here. If the church is of the twelfth century, the portal cannot be earlier than the thirteenth, but that sort of abortion is ageless, like deep-sea jellies.

The three shafts in the jambs, on each side, carry each two figures, or once did; the intention here being not to set figures in the recesses as at Noya but to put them on the shaft, as at Villaviciosa in Asturias, and in some measure on the north door at Orense. The intention goes back to Chartres to the west door and not the transept porches. In the archi volts are three rows of figures, laid over a torus, except the outmost row, which contains half-lengths in clouds. It would seem that the carver could not even count, for the figures run in fourteens; thirteen and the Saviour in one row, the others indeterminable.

In the tympanum are six figures and a [The Portal AND MONOGRAPHS 218 WAY OF S.JAMES A Dove:] bishop blessing, under arches. On the for eighteenth-century retable, within, S. Ju- [S. Basilisa?] lian figures, with a dove on his shoulder, in wig and steenkirk, wide skirts and huge cuffs, like a gentleman out of The Spectator.

The only imitation of Santiago, apart from the portal, is a bit of arcading attempted in the north wall of the north aisle, two pointed arches under a round one, like the pattern of a triforium. l 2 Both Corcubion and Finisterre have good churches, of the square-apse, towered type, but they owe nothing to Santiago.

  

401 - In the Gloria, the motive of the tympanum is borrowed from southern France: from the Gloria the figures in the arch were in turn copied elsewhere. So little in Spain is dated with exactitude that I am unable to say whether this arrangement of the little figures on radii of a circle struck from the centre of the lintel, is Master Matthew's invention. If so, it passed into France up the road with the pilgrims almost as far as- Anseis' messengers went. 3 It is found at Oloron, on the pilgrims' road, at Soria, where a king repeopled, at Zamora and Toro which have an architecture of their own; at Corunna and Betanzos in northern Galicia, applied to parish churches; at Carboeiro, adorning an alien style; at Puerto Marin, whither the pilgrims carried it; at Moraime n a hideous, at Noya in a beautiful imitaion of the portal. There must be other nstances: in brief, it was copied every- [Et semitas tuas edoce me HISPANIC NOTES 4O2 WAY OF S.JAMES Orense passed on to Zamora Corull6n] where.

688 - Moraime, S. Julian, 11-364, III-2H, 213, 216-7, 4O1