Every year, some 200,000 people set out on the world's most famous pilgrimage route - 'the Camino', designated a World Heritage Site in 1993. Actually a network of paths with numerous starting places in France and throughout Europe, all routes converge to lead along Spain's northern coast to Santiago de Compostela. Here the shrine of St James, the patron saint of pilgrimage, was discovered in the 9th century. Already the preferred guide for German and Spanish pilgrims, this new English edition is co-published with the Confraternity of St James, the UK's leading organisation for promoting pilgrimage to Santiago. A mix of practical information and spiritual inspiration for walkers, it offers a stage-by-stage guide pointing out places of interest along the way; practical tips for walkers; prayers, blessings and spiritual exercises to nourish the pilgrim spirit and deepen the pilgrimage experience. It is illustrated throughout with maps and photographs, and conveniently pocket sized.

Peter Muller

Invitation

Setting the Scene

Part 1: Setting Out for Santiago

Part 2: Immerse Yourself in Order to Understand

Part 3: About the Camino from Alpha to Omega

Part 4: Heart’s Desire – the Star Points the Way

Part 5: Building Bridges

Part 6: Being a Neighbour to Others

Part 7: Teach Me Your Ways, O Lord

Part 8: Withstanding Times of Desolation

Part 9: Full of Light

Part 10: ‘Leave Not One Stone Upon Another’

Part 11: The Doorway of Forgiveness

Part 12: The Wayside Crosses

Part 13: Drawn by the Apostle as by a Magnet

Part 14: Open Like a Scallop-Shell

Part 15: Life Can Only be Lived Facing Forwards

Acknowledgements and Sources of Illustrations and Photographs

Acknowledgements and Sources of Poetry

Colour Photographs

Every year, some 200,000 people set out on the world's most famous pilgrimage route - 'the Camino', designated a World Heritage Site in 1993. This pocket guide to Santiago offers practical tips for walkers, prayers, blessings and spiritual exercises to nourish the pilgrim spirit and deepen the pilgrimage experience.

LAURIE DENNETT is a professional writer and a former Chair of the Confraternity of St James with over 20 years' experience of the Camino. She lives in London and Spain.

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This book, translated from the Spanish by Laurie Dennett, is basically a guide book, a pocket companion, for those making the journey on foot along the Spanish part of the Way of St James from the Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela and to the tomb of St James the Apostle. It is a route taken by thousands of pilgrims every year. However, this little book is more than just a guide book to places on the way. The authors highlight the changing cultures, the different art forms, the variety of landscapes along the way. The text is enriched with prayers, poems, extracts and maps. They emphasise particularly the religious dimension as well as the human and historical, that the Way is indeed a metaphor for Life. The city of Santiago is not the destination; the Way itself is the destination. Our whole life is a pilgrimage on the pathway to the Eternal, to God.

Every Pilgrims Guide to Walking to Santiago De Compostela

Every Pilgrim's Guide to Walking to Santiago de Compostela

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