e’ve heard of ‘bats in the belfry’ with imagery of Gothic novels based in English parsonages or turreted castles. But, ‘farm birds in the cathedrals’, as we’ve discovered here in Spain requires a big stretch of the imagination. We are all puzzled in the Cathedral of Santo Domingo de la Calzada at seeing a live …
Click on the arrow in the bottom left of the photo below to PLAY VIDEO The Camino de Santiago ‘Our Way’ t the start of the video, you’ll see our group of twelve ‘pilgrims’ sitting around a large table after lunch in Astorga in the north of Spain. We are discussing the Martin Sheen …
tanding at the packed Pilgrim’s Mass in the Cathedral of Santiago, the quiet following Communion is suddenly broken by deep intakes of breath from more than a thousand pilgrims surprised at the unexpected lowering of the giant fifty kilogram Botafumeiro falling to the marble floor of the Sanctuary like a stone. Excitedly, they guess what’s …
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n the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, I don’t stand in line to climb up the narrow staircase behind the main altar to hug the statue of St James as so many of the pilgrims are doing, but I do go down into the crypt to see the silver casket in which his remains lie, …