The fifth Camino de Santiago “Inclusive Way” organized by the Association of Friends of the Franciscan Brothers of the White Cross in Córdoba is now underway. This program involves 16 children from the San Francisco de Asís family home, who have already participated...
We from the Jacobean Foundation will comment, as every year, on the statistics of the Pilgrim Welcome Office for 2024. Since the main interest of the Foundation is the pilgrims, our reading will focus particularly on them, on the trends that the statistics show...
The Camino continues to grow with 446,039 Compostelas delivered in a year without a jubilee but in which the shadow of the pandemic seems to have definitively disappeared. In 2023, 187,185 Spaniards and 243,141 foreigners collected the Compostela, that is, only 44%...
When I finished my first Camino de Santiago on New Year’s Eve in 2010, I was very likely the last pilgrim to receive their Compostela that year. The pilgrims’ office was closed, the Holy Door was also closed, and the celebratory Mass to conclude the Holy Year had...
-Journalist and technician from Xacobeo specialized in the Camino de Santiago, in recent years you had gotten very close to research... and then you surprised us with a novel. How did the project of writing a novel come about? When did that desire appear? - The idea...
The congress, which will take place at the Monte do Gozo Private Hostel (Santiago de Compostela) from October 19 to 22, will welcome representatives from the five continents. Santiago de Compostela will host the Second World Meeting of Associations of Friends of the...
Through this maritime route, thousands of pilgrims from northern Europe arrived in Galicia, especially the port of La Coruña, between the 11th and 16th centuries, to continue by land to the tomb of the Apostle Santiago. This second edition - now in the English version...
The foundation of our Association dates back to the first democratic town halls in our town. The “San Francisco de Assísi” Family Home was opened in Córdoba on January 7, 1977, in a small centre for 15 patients. Many ladies attended the house to collaborate with the...
Alfonso García López (Madrid, 1942), since his retirement in 2012 as a notary for the city of La Coruña, has dedicated his free time to continue writing. He regularly collaborates with personal articles in the press: in El Correo Gallego, with a fortnightly column...
The Camino goes on* Peace and goodness: Saint Teresa of Jesus said (wrote) that they had to live in “tough times” back then, and we could almost apply this same nomenclature to current times, after the break caused by the pandemic; a parenthesis, in general - in life,...
"Words on the Camino" is a journey through more than five decades of scattered texts, talks, presentations, introductions... A rigorous and sentimental work that its author carried out during the forced confinement of Covid-19, "that modern plague". These are...
Silvina Potenza is Argentinian, from Rosario, with a degree in communication and is also a writer. On her website www.silvinapontenza.com, you can consult everything she has written, including her latest book: Por la magia del Camino. Her book on her Camino is a novel...