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By Priscilla White, Confraternity of St. James, UK and Camino Aficionada Introduction | Historical Background A bit of background history: Pope Gregory the Great (590-604) wished to convert the heathen tribes of Northern Europe to Christianity and despatched St Augustine to carry out his mission. Augustine set off for England but was so worried about …
“Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.” Richard M. Nixon 2 Trips in 02 of 2020 Before Covid-19 hit we managed to undertake 2 overseas trekking trips in neighbouring Sicily – “bis-serqa” (stealthily) as the saying goes in Maltese …
#XirCammini walked the #Irish #Celtic #Caminos dubbed the (#PilgrimPaths) twice last year. We had 2 groups of #Pilgrims #hiking the 5 #trails that make up the Irish Caminos (61 pilgrims in total). There is a video per group below We would like to thank David and Elisabeth Ross (#http://www.topoftherock.ie/), Marian Collins and her lovely family …
Introduction (historical background) The Camino Sanabrés is 368km long, starting in Granja de Moreruela, in Zamorra, to Santiago via Ourense. Ourense to Santiago represents the last 100 km of this Camino. It starts from where the Cistercians had chosen to built their first monastery in 1143 on the site given to them by Emperor Alfonso …
