These days, you can encounter just about anyone walking the Camino de Santiago. Although the practice originated as a Christian pilgrimage in the ninth century, the pool of participants has expanded well beyond practicing Catholics in
Today is St. Gregory’s Day, that impressive governor of Rome who became a monk who became a pope. “I tried to escape the world as a monastic,” he tells us, “but God sent me back to
‘El Camino de Santiago’, or The Way of St. James, is the oldest and most important pilgrimage route in all of Europe. All Camino routes ultimately lead to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, the final resting place