Our Second Excursion: Conques

This sign says," Conque (the town) the big site of France, welcome.

Here is a wood statue of the Apostle James and me.
Eric and me with the pretty mountains as our background. (too bad it wasn't fall)

Picture of part of the town. It was very pretty in structure.
Me introducing you to the common bath tub. It was very large.
Here is where only monks/priests could hang out, it is attached to the cathedral, and the big tub is where they bathed.





Above every main door, tells a story out of pictures, because people back then could not all read.

Here is Eric our teaching, showing and explaining reasons for why the cathedral was structured the way it is.
Here is some town houses, that people still live in during the summer.
The way we walked into the town.
Me & my umbrella, it rained lightly all day.

Here is a closer view of the cathedral in the town.
Here is the town of Conques, at you can see the town is on a ledge off in the mountains. Very pretty scenery here. If you look in the middle of the town, you can see the cathedral. This cathedral location was very important because it is where many pilgrimage rs went. They came here to pray to relics. Relics were a very popular thing at this time. People would pray to the relics for help, (and then the church would collect money from the people who saw the relics). So it was a money maker for the church too. If their prayers were answered they would travel all the way back to the relics to pray and thank.