Straight Ways and Shining: Orthodox Spain and the Camino de Santiago Pilgrimage
Straight Ways and Shining: Orthodox Spain and the Camino de Santiago Pilgrimage
Join us on this celebrated 1200-year-old Christian pilgrimage across Spain to the relics of St. James the Greater, the first bishop of Jerusalem, beginning with the 600-mile trek of a young 20th-century Spanish agnostic in search of God, and an American chaplain in his seventies who walks the Camino yearly.
Follow the medieval pilgrims who flocked from every corner of Europe to the town of Santiago de Compostela, and trace the evidence for the saint’s veneration. Read the ancient litany to St. James, still prayed over modern-day pilgrims, and the accounts of healing and forgiveness that fill their narratives.
Discover the early saints of the Iberian Peninsula and the remarkable Spanish woman, Egirea, who wrote the first known pilgrimage account of the Holy Land. Finally, explore the newly-established Orthodox Christian churches in Spain and Portugal, and the communities they minister to. Buen Camino!
132 pages, softcover, with 35 black and white photos.
ISBN: 978-1635511208
$15.95