El Camino de Santiago

Iberian Journal: Making our way to Santiago like pilgrims have done for centuries

July 30, 2022 | By MARTHA BRUNE RAPP, Muddy River News contributor

(Part 2 of 4) Our first morning on El Camino de Santiago (the Way of St. James), we hiked to Roncesvalles, one of the most renowned villages in Basque Spain. I felt deeply connected to the past as we trekked along the path where Charlemagne’s army suffered its only defeat in the late eighth century.…

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Iberian Journal: Walking the El Camino de Santiago is believed to secure one's eternal salvation

July 29, 2022 | By MARTHA BRUNE RAPP, Muddy River News contributor

(Part 1 of 4) NORTHERN SPAIN — There are as many reasons and ways to walk El Camino de Santiago (the Way of Saint James) today as there are pilgrims who trek across Europe to the purported tomb of St. James the Greater in Santiago. It wasn’t always this way. After a shepherd claimed to…

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