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 …
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, …
he pilgrims have arrived in Santiago. As we come to the end of our own version of the Camino, there’s a stirring in some of us that we may not exactly have earned the indulgences promised those pilgrims with blistered feet, who walk at least one hundred kilometres along the Way. Father Steve dispels any …
Reading this story about my trip to Santiago de Compostela in 1993, I readily recall the impact of visiting the Cathedral, listening to the organ music, and being mesmerized watching the gold Botafumeiro swinging back and forth belching smoke across the wide transept. For some unknown reason, my story at the time doesn’t cover much …