Salut! So, now the last posting of my pilgrimage. My stay at Le Puy. On Thursday are Thérèse, Sylvie and I went early to the clock at seven pilgrims mass at the cathedral. The place of spring to autumn there every morning instead and the Bishop of Le Puy, it can not be put to celebrate themselves. It is a very nice bishop. After Mass, he gathered all the pilgrims present around and asks everyone where he came from. Then he gives everyone a small medallion with the Black Virgin of Le Puy. It was just like last year in October, when I first came here. But much more beautiful.
on Thursday was in fact a special church service. It was the feast day of Saint Bernard de Clairvaux. I met this saint on the road so often. First, at the Abbaye d'Acey, then in Citeaux, where I've even talked to my host Robert on him, and then again in Bénisson la-Loire Dieu shortly after my first crossing, where Bernard founded a monastery. And now in the Cathedral of Le Puy his feast is celebrated. Once again one of these many meetings. In the reading from the Old Testament was about the commitment that everyone who is a believer on the way to wisdom gained. And as the Gospel was read a prayer in which Jesus asks the Father to all who follow the will to see the glory. Those are two great promise. The bishop said in his sermon that the hope that speaks from these passages, that is precisely what gives the pilgrim his strength. For most of the show was indeed the start of their pilgrimage, because they started in Le Puy, but I found that the reading of texts and the Gospel have also fitted very well to the end of our pilgrimage.
After Mass we went to the chorus of the Black Madonna. In the same place I knelt before ten months before. At that time I had prayed that everything goes well with the high school. And now I have come back again, thank you to say. That was one reason for my trip. But along the way are a thousand other reasons to come, which I also was able to say thank you. There were so many experiences on the way who made me a pilgrim to hear my circulatory collapse in Walbourg through which I learned on my body, the beautiful moments with Christian, but also the farewell of him that has fallen so hard, the silence in the forests of Franche Comté and the Trappist monks in the Abbaye d'Acey, the crisis in Dole, when I was sick and could not go two days, and my night at Mont-Saint-Rigaud, where I get paid so much confidence. When I came out of the Beaujolais mountains in the Loire-level down, I thought, now you've seen everything you can do as a pilgrim. But the best came only later, when I on the second day after I crossed the Loire, have found two very, very great friends. And then of course all the warmth of the road, the hospitality in Germany and France, which overwhelmed me added. In these two months is really never a bad word somewhere like. While it was much harder than I had imagined, and it was really difficult moments on the road. But it has always fit everything so that the very best has become of it. And it was much nicer than I had imagined. Well, actually this is a miracle. The route has so much done with me. I will certainly need a long time to understand what actually happened here.
Thérèse and Sylvie have prayed long before the Black Madonna. I found it beautiful, they have at the moment to me. The two have a very deep religiosity. I've always noticed the road again, despite all the fun, we had together. I would like to go together with them next year via Podiensis, ie, from Le Puy in the direction of the Pyrenees.
We have looked at the Cathedral of course, in detail, which is a fascinating building. Namely, it is on a steep slope and the road that leads towards it, is a staircase inside MIIT. This is a great feeling, you step up the stairs and stand at once right in the church in all domes. The cloister we have visited. It will be the most beautiful of France and I must say that it is really beautiful with its color set against each other stone types.
Yes and then came the moment when our pilgrimage was over. Sylvie and Thérèse are down at noon with the regional train to Lyon. They thought I should come along but because I have to go back anyway to Lyon. But I still went to the quick. I had to arrive first in Le Puy, and I am right there remained one more day. We then arranged to meet the next day in Lyon.
So I am exactly 24 hours longer in Le Puy remained as my friends. I was on top of the needle tip and even had the good fortune to come into the chapel of St. Michael and me into the early medieval wall paintings to view. And I was in the other rocks in the Madonna of France after the First World War German cannon was cast. So, I can recommend anyone to go there sometimes high. From there you have the best view of the city.
On Friday I could not wait but to go to Lyon to see Sylvie and Thérèse again. They have picked me up at the station and then we spent another wonderful afternoon in Lyon. So, the city is great between the Rhone and the Saone. If I had to say of a city that she had flair, I would immediately call Lyon. And then in a café I have edited the two, but I sure will come to Lyon to study there. Real cute! Well, Vienna is actually my favorite, and Theatre Studies is not offered in Lyon. But a few semesters French art history in Lyon, which would appeal to me very much. Almost a year I've still got time to decide, because now so is my first voluntary social year. And I'm certainly has not been for the last time in Lyon.
have the evening at nine, the two then brought me to the Touring € liner, a large white coach that runs the Lyon-Frankfurt in ten hours. Yes, and I was the next morning, shortly after seven in Frankfurt and a half hour later in Darmstadt. And at half past nine I was standing at our front door and said "Salut, I'm back."
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vôtre Julie
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