Before the pandemic, it was celebrated every month in Leon at the Basilica of San Isidoro, by priests from a small secular order serving a theological institute-- I have spent half an hour searching for details-- I think I posted on this years...
Rabbit warren warning. About 10 years later, one of the Benedictine monks who fled from their abbey in SDC to what is now Italy, arrived in Western Australia. There he and a companion priest founded what became New Norcia, the only monastery town...
Those US pilgrims who might adventure northward will find a slew of pilgrimage routes in Québec, most of which have access to accommodation along the way, and for which guides have been written: The chemin de Sanctuaires from St-Joseph Basilica...
I would underline what others have suggested about Sobrado. You could also take a bus trip of an hour out of Burgos to the monastery at Silos, which appears to have accommodation for retreatants or multi-day stays. I understand that the...
The priest who presided at our marriage many years ago also ran a small printing press. Derek hired a lorry one day to pick up a load of supplies for the business. Wearing his usual checked shirt and jeans. On the way he stopped to pick up a...
Pre-Napoleonic Spain had a complex network of charitable institutions-- orphanages, hospitals, refuges for the agèd and poor. Many were funded and established by the confraternities-- we see them at passiontide lifting up huge crosses and...
The Confraternity of Saint James in South Africa once had-- perhaps still has-- a protocol established with the Consulate in Cape Town for the regular 90-day Schengen visa--- I do not think that an extended one exists. Get in touch with them...
Hat. no question. Skin cancer, if acquired, is most unpleasant. My later mother's oncologist told me that she enountered so much skin cancer among athletes and golfers that she wished she had the legal authority to require it. For many years...
These visa discussions (which seem to be proliferating recently) seem to be all over the board in the advice they provide, the steps they recommend, the costs supposedly involved, etc.
The moderators are not equipped to evaluate the veracity...
Get in touch with the Canadian Company of Pilgrims which has in the past provided letters of support for their members in a similar situation (e.g. South African citizens resident in Canada). There are two consulates in Canada, Toronto for...
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