Looking for Camino Group in Paris for Pre-Pilgrimage Meetup

[MaggieQYogini]

I’ll be in Paris 5/25/2022 for 3 days before SJPD. Love to join a chat, a city walk or a walk near Paris with other Parisian pilgrims. Is there a Facebook or local group??

 

[Former member 99290]

HI Maggie, If you want to meet pilgrims in Paris, this might be worth considering although, like you, they will be from elsewhere rather than Parisians.

Welcome Pilgrims! - Adveniat Paris

WelcomePilgrims! Are you coming to Paris to visit the chapel of the Miraculous Medal, the Basilica of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, or the Basilica of Sacré-Coeur? Are you passing through Paris on your way to Lourdes, Santiago de Compostela or Taizé? The Adveniat Christian Youth Hostel welcomes you!

adveniat-paris.org

I have not been there but I have heard positive reports from others.

 

[MaggieQYogini]

HI Maggie, If you want to meet pilgrims in Paris, this might be worth considering although, like you, they will be from elsewhere rather than Parisians.

Welcome Pilgrims! - Adveniat Paris

WelcomePilgrims! Are you coming to Paris to visit the chapel of the Miraculous Medal, the Basilica of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, or the Basilica of Sacré-Coeur? Are you passing through Paris on your way to Lourdes, Santiago de Compostela or Taizé? The Adveniat Christian Youth Hostel welcomes you!

adveniat-paris.org

I have not been there but I have heard positive reports from others.

Just checked the website. Awesome info. Will book my stay there!! So grateful!!

 

[mspath]

MaggieQYogini,
Lucky you planning to be in Paris in May!
Check out these two recent threads re Paris exhibitions .

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/another-way-of-seeing-notre-dame.72716

and

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/reconstructing-notre-dame-cathedral-paris.72529

 

[lovingkindness]

I’ll be in Paris 5/25/2022 for 3 days before SJPD. Love to join a chat, a city walk or a walk near Paris with other Parisian pilgrims. Is there a Facebook or local group??

Bonjour @MaggieQYogini

Here is a link to a camino group in central Paris. I visited their office in 2014 and attended a gathering.

Cheers
Lovingkindness

SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE DES AMIS DE SAINT-JACQUES DE COMPOSTELLE, Paris

Adress: 8 bis rue Jean Bart, 75006 Paris

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[Kathor1]

@MaggieQYogini, if you are comfortable with French you can check whether Compostelle 2000 organises workshops, walks or similar during your stay in Paris. Here is the link to their website and their agenda for this year:

Compostelle 2000 – Association d’aide aux pèlerins en Île-de-France

compostelle2000.org

https://compostelle2000.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Agenda_2022_ind-5.pdf

Members of the group occasionally accompany a pilgrim during the first few km when starting for Santiago from Paris.

 

[gittiharre]

I’ll be in Paris 5/25/2022 for 3 days before SJPD. Love to join a chat, a city walk or a walk near Paris with other Parisian pilgrims. Is there a Facebook or local group??

Try Compostelle2000
Pilgrim support staffed by volunteers in the Marais

 

[mspath]

Maggie,

Since you will be visiting Paris before beginning your pilgrimage here is another Parisian accommodation sponsored by a religious group, the Benedictine Sisters of the Sacred Heart , at the basilica of Sacre Coeur.

Do scan these earlier Forum threads for much more about pilgrim sites in Paris and the camino within Paris.

When on the parvis or place facing the Notre Dame cathedral below you underground lie Roman ruins and visible to your right across the Seine begins the medieval rue Saint Jacques which pilgrims followed to leave the city; walk it a bit and ponder history.

Take a deep breath, relax and just enjoy it! As an American who has lived 40+ years in France both in Paris and Champagne for me as Thomas Jefferson wrote “a walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of life.”

Bon Chemin and Buen Camino!