The year 2025 is a year of the Roman Jubilee. Far from forgetting or ignoring it, we at the Jacobean Foundation want to begin a series of posts on pilgrimages to Rome and their relationship with Santiago de Compostela. We begin this series with an introduction to the...
History has too often been written by and about men. For centuries, authors of all kinds and conditions have told us about intrepid adventurers, travellers and navigators, but completely leaving women like Egeria or Santa Elena, pilgrims and travellers of the fourth...
Thanks to the dissemination and donations made by Camino Society Ireland, the very active Jacobean association of Ireland, we have been able to access a gem of pilgrimage literature: the book Medieval Irish Pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela. by Bernadette Cunningham....
The pilgrimage of the 21st century is undoubtedly very different from that of medieval times, but there is one aspect in which the two experiences seem to be similar: the emotions experienced during the Camino and those that are experienced when reaching the goal,...
O Cebreiro is today a magical place, known and loved by pilgrims from all over the world. In the past, however, its geographical location in a high mountain area, in the Galician-Leonese massif, which reaches 1,300 meters of altitude, made it an extremely fearful...
In 1934 the manuscript of the biographical stories of Margery Kempe (1373-1438) was discovered - a very long text from the early fifteenth century of which until then only seven pages were known. It is one of the oldest pilgrimage itineraries, a very different...
Through the testimony of pilgrims from other centuries we can reconstruct the town of Sarria as it was throughout its history. Thanks to their stories we know the central importance of its fortress, its convent and the bridge that allowed pilgrims to pass through to...
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...
Egeria, also called Eteria, Ætheria or Etheria, was a Galician pilgrim, traveller and writer from the 4th century. The importance of this historical figure is enormous, since she is the first pilgrim and traveller that we know of, as well as being the first known...