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I found this video on Patrick Madrid's blog and thought you might like to see an amazing sight. This is the censer at the Cathedral de Santiago de Comostela in Spain. This is part of the Holy Mass and this particular Mass is for the pilgrims who are walking the pilgrimage of the Camino de Santiago, which is 550 miles. Karl's mom, Teresa has walked the entire pilgrimage. She and her group of friends did it in three stages over three years. She has a photo of the censer, but this video really is impressive. I love the incense at Mass and think of all the prayers rising to God like clouds of incense. Enjoy!
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Blogger Sil said...
ReplyDeleteThe “Botafumeiro” was originally designed to purify the atmosphere in the medieval Cathedral, which was crowded with smelly pilgrims! The first mention of it goes back to the 14 th century. The thiruble honouring the Apostle James saved in the 16th century by the invention of a system of pulleys that improved its pendulum movement. Now part of the liturgy after Communion, the “Botafumeiro” appears with its 1.5-metre height and 53-kilo weight on the shoulders of eight expert “tiraboleiros” (from thuribulum, “smoke throwers”), who are the ones that make it fly through the transept air. It is no longer the silver brazier that arrived in the 16th century as an offering from King Louis XI of France, since that one was stolen by Napoleon's troops during the War of Independence. Today's artefact is made of silver-plated brass and dates from 1851. After being tied to the thick rope hanging from the ciborium, it only takes a minute and a half of swinging until the laws of physics –intuited in Santiago before Galileo officially formulated them– take it to a speed of 68 ilometres per hour at an angle of 82 degrees away from vertical.
There is a beautiful series of photographs on this website:
I copied this comment from the first post I did, since it did not have the link and I thought Sil's comments were very interesting.
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