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On Pilgrimage with Tracy Borman to the Floating City
May 01, 2021
The Catholic Herald
Tracy Borman would ponder the soothing words of Julian of Norwich on her pilgrims way to Venice
On the way to Walsingham
May 01, 2021
William Cash
Taking an Easter pilgrimage to the Holy Shrine of “England’s Nazareth” in Norfolk
Tales of St James
April 09, 2021
Curtis Williams
Saints and sinners, miracles and miscreants, and even Old Scratch himself … the literature associated with the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela abounds in characters and tales as colorful, instructive and entertaining as anything in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
Catholic martyrs’ bones identified almost 150 years after discovery in an attic
April 08, 2021
Catholic News Agency
It’s a mystery that has puzzled researchers for almost 150 years. In 1878, a wooden box containing two skulls and a cluster of other bones was discovered in an attic in the Welsh town of Holywell.
The joys of silence
April 01, 2021
Sarah Sands
After a tour of monasteries, Sarah Sands learns to enjoy the silence – until she has to talk about it
Some peace and quiet
April 01, 2021
William Cash
Sands was invited to luxury house parties in Tuscany where her Russian media mogul’s host’s dog eats Boris Johnson’s computer cord. It is time for a Reset.
Gazing down on Galata – On Pilgrimage with Adam Dant
April 01, 2021
The Catholic Herald
Adam Dant on travelling in style to the Queen of cities
Walking with Saints
April 01, 2021
Guy Hayward
Guy Hayward explains how sitting next to a stranger on a train led to his mapping out 10 new English Heritage pilgrimage trails that step into religious history
Pope Francis in Iraq: Overview
March 04, 2021
John Cookson
Asked in February why he was making a tour of Iraq at a time of growing political tension and worries about the spread of Covid, Pope Francis replied: “I am the pastor of people who are suffering.”
On pilgrimage to St Winifrede’s Well with Clare Asquith
March 01, 2021
The Catholic Herald
Where would you go? Twenty years ago, almost by accident, my husband Raymond and I discovered St Winefride’s Well at Holywell. We were driving through North Wales and we saw a sign, so on spec we turned down the road. It is the oldest uninterrupted pilgrim site in the UK; at least 800 years old
The 2021 Holy Year of Jubilee in Santiago
March 01, 2021
Curtis Williams
Curtis Williams, veteran leader of Camino pilgrimages, reflects on the changing nature of the famous pilgrimage route in the Jubilee Year of St James
A walk among the ruins
March 01, 2021
Michael Hodges
Michael Hodges follows in Archbishop Becket’s footsteps along the Clarendon Way
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