One of her most lucrative shells was the appropriatelynamed sand dollar. The Sand Dollar Motel and Marina on Grand Isle was a frenzy of activity on Friday as boaters scrambled to get their vessels to higher ground and marina employees secured the premises.
Still a place of pilgrimage even in these more secular times, the Holy Island of Lindisfarne is the very fountain head of England's Christian heritage.It was on Holy Island that the early Christian message was honed and distributed to a largely pagan Northumberland.indisfarne Priory was the home of St Cuthbert and the birthplace of a true national treasure-the Lindisfarne Gospels, a unique illuminated Latin manuscript of the gospels of Mark, Luke and John.
Saint John the Baptist Chapel with the tomb of Jean de Valon, Knight of Hospitaliers. The ruins of the old hospital dating from the 13th century, used by sick pilgrims. Rocamadour is a medieval village and a pilgrimage location declared in 2008 one of the Great Sites of Midi-Pyrenees (Grand Site Midi-Pyrenees). pyrÃ©nÃ©eshe name Rocamadour comes form the words roque meaning rock and Amadour the name of the Saint who is said to have lived there in the first century AD and whose perfectly preserved body was discovered in 1166.