Way of silence – Rafa Prieto
My path, this path, was special. It started in Seville, in front of the Cachorro* in Holy Week 2019, when I promised Him that I would do it and bring Him the Compostela, if He helped me in a very complicated work situation. This was because, after 32 years in the same...
Oihana Trojaola tells us about her experience as an ACC volunteer, receiving and caring for pilgrims in Compostela!
Oihana Trojaola has collaborated with the Foundation since its inception. She actively participated in our audiovisual ‘The Memory of the Pilgrims’ and in our book ‘The year 2020 on the Camino’- as a pilgrim in Spain and active volunteer of Christian Reception in...
Churches of Santiago: Santa Susana
The church of Santa Susana is perched on a hill in the center of an oak grove, which crowns the park of the Alameda. It is a place with fine views of the cathedral in which there probably existed a Roman village. It is not strange that such a pre-eminent site for the...
William Griffiths – Confraternity of St. James (UK)
Gabriela. Romania
I think the Camino calls you, if you have to do it, I’m sure you’ll end up doing it. I felt that I was being called by several signs of different events: the first was that I read that someone from Romania did the Camino, then I discovered Paolo...
Domenico Laffi and his ‘Travel in the West to Saint James of Galicia and Finisterre’ (1673)
Domenico Laffi was an Italian clergyman originally from the 17th century city of Bologna, a pilgrim to Compostela on several occasions and the author of an extraordinary account of his pilgrimages published and republished numerous times over the centuries. Through...
The shell: the emblem of the pilgrimage to Santiago
The shell, as an emblem of pilgrimage, “signum peregrinorum”, has been in use since at least the twelfth century, but despite other pagan and Christian uses throughout the centuries, it began to develop enormously in the medieval period as a heraldic...
Francisco de Almozara Valenzuela – Círculo Chileno de Amigos del Camino de Santiago de Compostela
Francisco Javier de Almozara Valenzuela President of the Círculo Chileno de Amigos del Camino de Santiago de Compostela...