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by bcadmin | May 27, 2022 | Arts, Features, June 2022, Magazine, News, Oberammergau, Travel & Pilgrimage | 0 |
I don’t recall too many conversations in my life beginning with the words: “When I was on the cross last night…”. But there was one the other week in Oberammergau, as the entire Bavarian village geared up for the opening of this year’s Passion Play. It was nigh impossible to walk into a bar or
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 1, 2022 | Magazine, March 2022, News, Normandy, Notre-Dame de Montligeon, Travel & Pilgrimage | 0 |
Ferdie Rous visits the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Montligeon in Normandy in search of solace
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 25, 2021 | December 2021, Features, Magazine, News, Rhodes, Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Travel & Pilgrimage | 0 |
After 44 years, William Cash returns to this ancient island which for centuries was Christianity’s easternmost frontier
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 22, 2021 | Column, Magazine, News, November 2021, Travel & Pilgrimage | 0 |
Where would you go? The Two Moors Way as I’ve always wanted to walk from Exmoor to Dartmoor, and would stop at the Poltimore Arms, high on Exmoor, a location of Du Maurier wildness and romance where anything can happen (and often does). Who would be your travelling companions? I would take Ziggy, my adorable
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 12, 2021 | Belgium, Column, Geoffrey Chaucer, Magazine, News, Pugin, Travel & Pilgrimage | 0 |
Where would you go? I would go to Canterbury which is not very original, but I have my reasons. Where I live in south London is very close to the Pilgrims Way and my office is in some almshouses in Peckham called the Pilgrims’ Cloisters. I feel that Canterbury is so essential to the church
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 11, 2021 | Magazine, News, St Columba, Travel & Pilgrimage | 0 |
William Cash travels to the holy island of Iona where celebrating Mass today owes much to the mother of Princess Diana
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 5, 2021 | August 2021, Column, Magazine, News, On pilgrimage, Travel & Pilgrimage | 0 |
Where would you go? The walking around Stoke-on-Trent is pretty amazing. I know the area because it is where our factories are. Staffordshire is very little-known and it’s marvellous. At the moment I’m walking in Trentham Park – it’s not exactly a pilgrimage but sort of is because Stoke is a holy grail to me. When I first
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 30, 2021 | August 2021, Features, Magazine, News, Pilgrimage, Santiago, Top Story, Travel & Pilgrimage | 0 |
In an age of secular pilgrimage, James Jeffrey writes about walking with spiritual purpose
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Read Moreby bcadmin | May 25, 2021 | Arts, British Museum, exhibition, Features, Magazine, News, Pilgrimage, Thomas Becket, Top Story, Travel & Pilgrimage | 0 |
The British Museum’s dazzling survey of the life and legacy of the cult 12th-century saint
Thomas Becket is set to be an unlikely summer blockbuster, reports Guy Hayward
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 9, 2021 | Camino de Santiago de Compostela, Jubilee Year of St James, News, Santiago de Compostela, Top Story, Travel & Pilgrimage, Way of St. James | 0 |
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.
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Read MoreIt’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.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 1, 2021 | coronavirus emergency, Jubilee Year of St James, News, Pilgrimage, Santiago de Compostela, Top Story, Travel & Pilgrimage | 0 |
How did the relics of St. James, martyred by King Herod Agrippa I in Jerusalem in AD 44, end up in the remote and wild northwestern corner of Roman Hispania in the first place? Curtis Williams takes us to the crossroads of history and legend.
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