Can one commit pilgrimage “adultery”? In the months of planning leading up to my taking a group of pilgrims along a portion of La Via di Francesco—the Way of Saint Francis—to Assisi in Italy, I […]
All bets are off when you venture forth on pilgrimage. You leave the mainframe, escaping the grid; you’ve gone rogue, delving to a deeper level of existence. As one pilgrim—a mother of seven and one […]
People usually rave about the Met. Many consider it, not without justification, to house the world’s greatest art collection. While Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado is also considered one of the world’s best art museums, […]
A strange sense of beautiful abandonment accompanied me as I passed between the soundless cloisters of the Cistercian monastery Santa María la Real de Oseira in north-western Spain. One cloister was overrun with purple lavender flowers, […]
Before the Portuguese police officer told me I couldn’t walk across the border into Spain, the only other time I had been stopped from crossing a border was when I tried to go from northern […]
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