Posts Tagged ‘Camino de Santiago de Compostela’

The Camino, a Catholic pilgrimage, increasingly draws the spiritual but not religious

Thursday, July 4th, 2024
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In her early 30s, Rachael Sanborn found herself in a bad relationship and dreaming of an escape to the Camino de Santiago in Spain. It’s a pilgrimage her father had undertaken that had profoundly changed his life. Sanborn, a rebel and adventurer by nature (she dropped out of college to meditate in India for a Read more

Pope thanks pilgrim with disability who walked along Spain’s ‘Camino’

Monday, July 27th, 2020

Pope Francis sent a letter of gratitude to a Spanish teen pilgrim with an intellectual disability after the 15-year-old traveled more than 60 miles along the famed Camino de Santiago de Compostela. In a letter signed July 21 and published on the website of the Diocese of Malaga, Spain, the pope said he learned of Read more