- Time of past OR future Camino
- CF 2006, CP 2013, Salvador2017,
Inglés 2019
No idea if this is the best place to post.
Today is St Patrick's Day.
Never mind green rivers or green bagels.
This is not about green-ness.
A friend, also a recent Irish national by citizenship, sent me this video.
There are other visual versions, but the music is the same.
Connection to camino?
Well, every story has its building blocks.
The 'story' of the Camino is not something I know how to defend as in a thesis.
However, James, according to tradition, arrived, dead as a doornail, in a stone boat, in Santiago, as a pilgrim, if you will. Fill in the gaps until now.
Some centuries later, Patrick, depending on your sources, travelled by boat from UK (Wales? who knows?) to the land of the shamrock. He used the weed to his advantage in proselytising. Thereby hangs a tale.
There is a most evocative film, movie, called The Camino Voyage.
It portrays a wonderful, and tragic, journey, executed by a group of modern enthusiasts, who designed and travelled in a home made reproduction of an ancient craft to sail from Ireland to A Corunna, and from thence to Santiago.
Who knows? Worthy historians have chronicled verifiable accounts, but what is important to our modern pilgrim?
I leave you to ponder the value of the building blocks that have opened your heart to a pilgrimage.
(and look elsewhere to find Rita Connolly singing this song).
It was written, according to custom, by one of the first pilgrims in the tradition of James to be recorded.
Note: I am very open to correction.
Today is St Patrick's Day.
Never mind green rivers or green bagels.
This is not about green-ness.
A friend, also a recent Irish national by citizenship, sent me this video.
There are other visual versions, but the music is the same.
Connection to camino?
Well, every story has its building blocks.
The 'story' of the Camino is not something I know how to defend as in a thesis.
However, James, according to tradition, arrived, dead as a doornail, in a stone boat, in Santiago, as a pilgrim, if you will. Fill in the gaps until now.
Some centuries later, Patrick, depending on your sources, travelled by boat from UK (Wales? who knows?) to the land of the shamrock. He used the weed to his advantage in proselytising. Thereby hangs a tale.
There is a most evocative film, movie, called The Camino Voyage.
It portrays a wonderful, and tragic, journey, executed by a group of modern enthusiasts, who designed and travelled in a home made reproduction of an ancient craft to sail from Ireland to A Corunna, and from thence to Santiago.
Who knows? Worthy historians have chronicled verifiable accounts, but what is important to our modern pilgrim?
I leave you to ponder the value of the building blocks that have opened your heart to a pilgrimage.
(and look elsewhere to find Rita Connolly singing this song).
It was written, according to custom, by one of the first pilgrims in the tradition of James to be recorded.
Note: I am very open to correction.
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