One day, while searching for a destination for a day trip from Beziers, France, I discovered the Abbaye de Sainte-Marie de Fontchaude. It was not far away and was in a small hamlet surrounded by ...

Pilgrims walking the famous Camino de Santiago have reached a new record. In 2023, nearly half a million people from around the world hiked this historic route. According to the statistics released by ...

Have you ever wanted to make a pilgrimage along what is perhaps the most famous pilgrim trail in the world? Santiago: The Camino Within brings an intimate look into what it is like for pilgrims to ...

When Loni Philbrick-Linzmeyer decided to walk the Camino de Santiago, she was adamant this was something she had to do alone. It was 2013. Loni was a 29-year-old Californian school teacher who was “at ...

(RNS) — In her early 30s, Rachael Sanborn found herself in a bad relationship and dreaming of an escape to the Camino de Santiago in Spain, a pilgrimage her father had undertaken that had profoundly ...

This is the third time I have walked the Camino de Santiago, the ancient pilgrimage path crisscrossing Europe. When I need to take time out from my daily routine, or when it is time to reflect on my ...

In early 2017, I scuffled through the hallways of the building where I worked. My hands pooled with sweat and my stomach flipped. It was time — after many months of intricate planning — to quit. In ...

The Camino de Santiago requires time, stamina, and sacrifice, but ask any pilgrim who’s finished: most of us would return to that road without hesitation. The Camino de Santiago, or Way of Saint James ...

“Tu mochila es tan pesada como tus miedos,” says Leonardo San Sebastián, as he lifts the bottom of my backpack to check its weight. We’re standing before the Santuario de Santa María a Real do ...

A few tears fell from my father’s eyes as he gazed up at the towering steeples of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. To the average passer-by, the tears my father shed probably appeared to be no ...

Two USC Aiken professors are planning to guide a group of students next year as they walk Spain’s famous pilgrimage route Camino de Santiago. Dr. Angel M. Renales, whose research interests include ...