MichaelB10398

Veteran Member From Leesburg, Virginia

Joined: May 30, 2009

Last seen: Yesterday at 4:19 PM

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- MichaelB10398 reacted to peregrina2000's post in the thread Sexual harassment on Camino routes with Like.
  
  The topic of sexual harrassment and violence on the Camino has been discussed many times, but it’s done in the context of a woman actually reporting on her experience. This is the first time I can remember having a mainstream press article as the...
  
  Nov 11, 2024
- MichaelB10398 reacted to Kathor1's post in the thread Who is this sculpture? with Like.
  
  There is no need for an answer anymore: The statues are in the Cathedral of Tui. The name of each saint is spelled out in large letters at the base of each statue. These "mates" and "blokes" are women as one can easily read: Santa Sila, Santa...
  
  Nov 6, 2024
- MichaelB10398 reacted to Kathor1's post in the thread Who is this sculpture? with Like.
  
  Yep, Saint Michael, dressed as a knight, with wings and with his scales for weighing souls. An omnipresent motif along the way to Santiago and pretty much elsewhere in medieval Europe. The archangel Michael is often included in Last Judgment...
  
  Nov 6, 2024
- MichaelB10398 reacted to MARSKA's post in the thread First time in Camino and will be traveling solo. with Like.
  
  In regards to cost plan on 50 euros/day on average. I am a "mature" woman who walked St Jean to SDC without using a travel company in 2023 & again in 2024 - and met so many awesome people. You do not need to pay a travel company.. Look at...
  
  Nov 5, 2024
- MichaelB10398 reacted to trecile's post in the thread First time in Camino and will be traveling solo. with Like.
  
  It's easy to find out the costs by going to the providers' websites. But the majority of forum members and pilgrims on the Camino arrange it themselves and save a lot of money in the process. Plus you can customize the Camino for your ability...
  
  Nov 5, 2024
- MichaelB10398 reacted to Perambulating Griffin's post in the thread A window in Burgos Cathedral with Like.
  
  I am pondering, following Katharina's post, whether the work of maintaining such things can ever be fully separated from the religious. We have a care-taker in our parish... his work is nothing if not practical, but it is occasionally also very...
  
  Nov 2, 2024
- MichaelB10398 reacted to alexwalker's post in the thread Alternatives to Sarria with Like.
  
  I have walked many CFs. I will never walk from Sarria again. Go to the train station in Sarria and get a train to Zamora/Pueble de Sanabria, then walk the Sanabres into Santiago. Easy and peaceful. Peace.
  
  Oct 17, 2024
- MichaelB10398 reacted to DoughnutANZ's post in the thread Alternatives to Sarria with Like.
  
  There is a bus that goes from Sarria to Tui (Portugués camino) and you can then walk the last 100klm from Tui I did this in 2023.
  
  Oct 17, 2024
- MichaelB10398 reacted to Pafayac's post in the thread Burgos Cathedral with Like.
  
  Immaculate Conception (of Mary Mother of God), according to catholic theology, means that she had escaped from the "original sin". When married people conceive a child, they do not do a sin, at least according to my understanding of what a sin is.
  
  Oct 16, 2024
- MichaelB10398 reacted to Perambulating Griffin's post in the thread Walked the Camino over 12 times to Santiago never once went into Cathedral. with Like.
  
  I have been to the cathedral and prayed at the remains of the saint, but I go to mass at the Pilgrim office (so that I can avoid the gawkers in the cathedral who won't respect the private nature of mass and insist of filming, snapping photos etc).
  
  Oct 11, 2024
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