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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 and 
Pope Calixtust 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 Jacobe^!”§ 
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 May hew, 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. Monacliism, p. 469. 
t “ Pilgrims of the Middle Ages,” p. 321, ^ Art Journal.’ 
t See note, “ Pilgrims of the Middle Ages.” Sermones, Bib. Pat., 
ed. Bignio, xv. 330. 
§ Br. Rock’s ‘Church of the Fathers,’ vol. iii. p. 442. 
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