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pilgrims, and there was an hotel at Paris on purpose 

 for receiving them if they were bound to St. James's 

 shrine; but the revenues failing, it was purchased by 

 the Dominicans.* " Besides its badge, each pilgrimage 

 had also its gathering cry, which the pilgrims shouted 

 out, as at grey of morn they slowly crept through the 

 town or hamlet where they had passed the night," f an d 

 Pope CalixtusJ says that the Santiago pilgrims were ac- 

 customed, before dawn, at the top of each town, to cry 

 with a loud voice, " Deus adjuva ! Sancte JacobeM"§ 



It is stated that pilgrims used to present their scrips 

 and bourdons to their parish churches, and Coryatt saw 

 cockle, mussel-shells, beads, and other religious relics, 

 hung up over the door of a little chapel in a nunnery. 

 These were deposits and offerings made by pilgrims to 

 Compostella, when they returned and gave thanks. || 



The Rev. E. L. Cutts states that shells have not 

 unfrequently been found in stone coffins, and are sup- 

 posed to be relics of the pilgrimage once taken by the 

 deceased to Compostella ; and that when the grave of 

 Bishop Mayhew, who died in 1516, was opened some 

 years ago, in Hereford Cathedral, a common rough 

 hazel-wand, between four and five feet long and as thick 

 as a man's finger, was found lying by his side, and with 

 it a few mussel and oyster shells. 



St. James of Compostella is said to have performed 

 many miracles, and to have appeared no less than fif- 

 teen several times to the Spanish kings and princes, 



* Fosbroke's Brit. Monachism, p. 469. 

 f " Pilgrims of the Middle Ages," p. 321, ' Art Journal.' 

 + See note, " Pilgrims of the Middle Ages." Sermones, Bib. Pat., 

 ed. Bignio, xv. 330. 



§ Dr. Rock's 'Church of the Fathers,' vol. hi. p. 442. 

 || Brit. Monachism. 



