The Pilgrims Office at Santiago de Compostela, in behalf of the Cathedral, provides the last and closing stamp on your credencial signifying you have completed your pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. I believe that as long as the Pilgrims...
What struck me, was why walk to Santiago 12 times and never enter the cathedral? There are thousands of other walks throughout Europe and even more if we include the world. Why keep walking to the same place? I’ve only done it six times, but...
I am an atheist and a Jewish atheist at that.
But the closest I’ve ever come to believing in a g-d was when I first saw the baldacchino in St. Peter’s. Not only did its size and beauty literally take my breath away, but I sat in awe thinking...
It’s your life and you can do what you like. I think it’s odd to continually walk a path that is literally to a place that you don’t visit, but you do you. For me, I like to visit key places in cities I visit, religious or secular.
Meet me at EPIC and I'll tell you. Or St James' St Church, any volunteer will entertain you gladly! Time is running out, so go before the end of October, any Thursday, Friday or Saturday 10.30 till 3.30.
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).
It baffles me, Maybe? for me reaching your destination is a completion and fulfilment of my Camino. Maybe? I did not want this "ending",
Maybe? it's the tourism all around it for some, "not begrudging it" it's a day out on the tour bus,
I...
FWIW, @MicMac, James A. Michener's book Iberia (1968) has incredible descriptions of the Cathedral, inside and out - architecturally, historically and artistically. I'm taking those 99 pages with me in a couple of weeks, for a more thorough...
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