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Whenever I’m in Santiago de Compostela, in the northwest corner of Spain, I have a three-part agenda: See pilgrims reach their goal in front of the cathedral, explore the market, and buy some ...
On Easter Sunday five years ago, Pierce Todd Withers attended the holiest of Christian celebratory masses at the famed Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. For the faithful ...
For centuries, when pilgrims finished their long, exhausting walk to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain, where the remains of St. James the Great are said to rest, their ...
Pilgrims and barnacles in Santiago de Compostela, Spain By Rick Steves Oct 27, 2009 Happy hikers celebrate the end of their 500-mile pilgrimage in front of the Cathedral of St. James in Santiago ...
Whenever I’m in Santiago de Compostela, in the northwest corner of Spain, I have a three-part agenda: See pilgrims reach their goal in front of the cathedral, explore the market, and buy some ...
This modern town of about 13,000 is 100 kilometers from Santiago — about five days’ hike — and the minimum distance a pilgrim has to walk in order to pick up a Compostela.
Rome Newsroom, Jul 1, 2020 / 07:00 am. Pilgrims can walk the Camino de Santiago once again as the pilgrimage's destination, the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, reopened its doors Wednesday.
F or more than 1,000 years, Catholics have made the pilgrimage to this holy city in northern Spain to visit the shrine of St. James the Great, now the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. This ...