[a history buff]

Chartres has a labyrinthe as well. It's a metaphor for our pilgrimage in this world.

[Siobhan]

The one in Chartres is not around the Altar and it is nothing more than floor decoration and has only begun to be "used" by New Age types in the last part of the twentieth century. The same people on the labyrinth bandwagon are enamored of enneagrams and other such trifles. You want a journey with God? Go on an Ignation 30 day retreat.

[patent]

Chartres has a labyrinthe as well. It's a metaphor for our pilgrimage in this world.

I could be wrong but I believe the Chartres labyrinthe was made as a substitute for the pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the days when pligrimaging in that direction usually cost you your head. So they walked the labyrinthe instead.

patent