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James Jeffrey is a freelance journalist, writer and Camino guide who splits his time between the US, the UK, the Iberian Peninsula and further afield Follow him on Twitter: @jrfjeffrey and at his website: www.jamesjeffreyjournalism.com. For more on the Camino go to www.santiagotrails.co.uk.
Essay

Two pilgrimages, one Way: On Assisi and Santiago de Compostela

February 17, 2024 James Jeffrey 7

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 […]

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The revival of pilgrimage in an age of secularism and distraction

July 23, 2023 James Jeffrey 10

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 […]

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Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado is filled with bracing, demanding beauty

March 31, 2023 James Jeffrey 4

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, […]

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Monastic decline and the loss that goes with it

December 3, 2022 James Jeffrey 20

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, […]

Essay

Walking the Camino during Covid’s End of Days

June 12, 2022 James Jeffrey 7

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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