I always wanted to do the Camino de Santiago and, although at first I had no special reason, I wanted to live that experience and the moment came in 2006. I left Roncesvalles, attended the mass and blessing of the pilgrim at the Collegiate Church, and the next day I...
Lorenzo Merín is one of those pilgrims for whom the Camino has changed life, someone who never tires of saying that the pilgrimage to Santiago is the best therapy, because he knows full well what that means. In addition, he is a pilgrim who, through what he considers...
Everything is uncertain for the time being. The countries will not become stable for some time yet, therefore the return to normality will take time before it reaches our immediate environment and the countries that respond to the call of the Camino. There will be...
From the two associations to which I belong and preside over, FICS (International Fraternity of the Camino de Santiago) and the Association of Friends of the Camino de Santiago de Astorga and Comarca, and we manage shelters and continue to receive calls from both...
The Camino is in quarantine and is preparing to receive us in the future. When we return to it, we will be thankful that this situation that we are living, not only in Spain or Ireland but worldwide, has ended. Those were some words of the pilgrim blessing that Father...
While we wait and worry that worse things are on their way for the Camino de Santiago, the virus has handed some of us the kind of break we sometimes dream of: Sleeping late, cleaning out the cupboards, putting our neglected paperwork in order, un-clogging the...
At this moment many people are talking about the Camino online, there are great differences of opinion. There are very optimistic people who believe that after this crisis something new and more spiritual will emerge and others, among whom I align myself, who I...
Peace and good will: at the side of the road you can no longer hear the footsteps of pilgrims passing, but the wild flowers that bloom with love for spring, are a reminder of those steps that have changed the course of history, those same steps that will re-open paths...
José de la Riera is a good friend of the Fundación Jacobea, ex-president of AGACS, pilgrim, researcher, writer and even bagpiper, responsible for the recovery of many historical itineraries -especially the Portuguese Way- and promoter of the Via Mariana. Today he is...