sillydoll
Veteran Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2002 CF: 2004 from Paris: 2006 VF: 2007 CF: 2009 Aragones, Ingles, Finisterre: 2011 X 2 on CF: 2013 'Caracoles': 2014 CF and Ingles 'Caracoles":2015 Logrono-Burgos (Hospitalero San Anton): 2016 La Douay to Aosta/San Gimignano to Rome:
I received a copy of a letter sent to Marion Marples at the CSJ. Has anyone heard about this?
Dear marion,
Do you know anything about events in at the monastery in Rabanal del Camino? In the Spanish press there is news of the monks being both physically and verbally assaulted by a mob of about 100 people. The monks were ordered by their Abbot to flee the monastery under the protection of the Guardia Civil. Ecclesiastical intervention and protests to the local and regional authorities have been made but as fo 24th Aug the monks had still not returned.
The Spanish press mentions payments that the government of Castilla Leon is offering to keep the churches and monasteries on the Camino open and alive for the pilgrims.
The Monastery of San Salvador de Monte Irago is not far from Refugio Guacelmo.
Do you have any news?
http://www.religionconfidencial.com/ind ... &Itemid=78
Rabanal del Camino expelled the Benedictines for 1 million euros
The sad event happened this week in the town of Leon Rabanal del Camino has a single motivation: the struggle for the management of one million euros. The Castilla Leon decided to grant the execution of the restoration of the Romanesque church to the City of Santa Colomba de Somoza (which oversees Rabanal). That would be the underlying reason for which a local group, orchestrated by the neighborhood council has come to insult and threaten monks with physical aggression to the point of having to leave after 10 years of presence in the village escorted by the Guardia Civil.
Dear marion,
Do you know anything about events in at the monastery in Rabanal del Camino? In the Spanish press there is news of the monks being both physically and verbally assaulted by a mob of about 100 people. The monks were ordered by their Abbot to flee the monastery under the protection of the Guardia Civil. Ecclesiastical intervention and protests to the local and regional authorities have been made but as fo 24th Aug the monks had still not returned.
The Spanish press mentions payments that the government of Castilla Leon is offering to keep the churches and monasteries on the Camino open and alive for the pilgrims.
The Monastery of San Salvador de Monte Irago is not far from Refugio Guacelmo.
Do you have any news?
http://www.religionconfidencial.com/ind ... &Itemid=78
Rabanal del Camino expelled the Benedictines for 1 million euros
The sad event happened this week in the town of Leon Rabanal del Camino has a single motivation: the struggle for the management of one million euros. The Castilla Leon decided to grant the execution of the restoration of the Romanesque church to the City of Santa Colomba de Somoza (which oversees Rabanal). That would be the underlying reason for which a local group, orchestrated by the neighborhood council has come to insult and threaten monks with physical aggression to the point of having to leave after 10 years of presence in the village escorted by the Guardia Civil.