Straight Ways and Shining

Join us on this celebrated 1200-year-old pilgrimage across Spain to the relics of St. James, beginning with the 600-mile trek of a young 20th-century Spanish agnostic in search of God and an American chaplain who walks the Camino annually.. Follow the medieval history of pilgrims who flocked from every corner of Europe to the town of Santiago de Compostela, and the evidence for the saint's veneration. Find inspiration in the ancient litany to St. James, still prayed over modern-day pilgrims, and the accounts of healing and forgiveness that fill the narratives of those who made their way to his relics. Discover the early saints of the Iberian Peninsula and the remarkable Spanish pilgrim Egirea, who wrote the first known pilgrimage account of the Holy Land. Finally, explore the many newly-established Orthodox Christian churches in Spain and Portugal, and the communities they minister to.