It is a very small chapel with a rectangular plan that is located at the entrance of Compostela on the French Way, at the beginning of Monte do Gozo. This chapel has the particularity that its door is oriented to the east and not to the west like most of the temples of Christianity. This difference has a reason that the legend explains to us. After the Lavacolla stream, you had to climb the slope of A Rexidoira. St. Mark went up as a pilgrim, who came to visit the Apostle Santiago. Almost halfway up the slope, he is reached by another younger pilgrim, who brings a rod with very worn sandals. Very talkative and, apparently, a good connoisseur of the Camino, San Marcos asked him: "Since you know so much about the road and the lodgings, tell me how long it takes to get to Santiago."
"Oh, a lot," replied the boy. I come from Germany and the same is missing. Do you see how many sandals? Well, I will have to spend many others, since Santiago is at the end of the Earth, at the end of the world."
St. Mark, who was already tired, became disheartened, made a chapel, put the door to the nascent and no longer walked the league that would have taken him to the Basilica of Santiago. At that time, the first of the group that from the Monte del Gozo could see Santiago was designated king of the pilgrimage.
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Joseph

June 24, 2025

Small Chapel at the end of the street of the CC Los Olmos Park area

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