- Time of past OR future Camino
- First one in 2005 from Moissac, France.
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My lunchtime relaxation was to go looking here, and I found:BTW, What is the collective noun for saints?
A progress of pilgrims?My lunchtime relaxation was to go looking here, and I found:
Go figure.
- A communion of saints,
- No pilgrims,
- And a holiness of donuts
(Sorry David, for going off topic. I couldn't resist...)
I discovered that my pilgrimage from San Andres de Teixido last year began on the feast of St Winifred: a Welsh saint whose shrine in Holywell I have walked to twice (from Aberdaron and from Shrewsbury). A connection I would probably never have made but for your postAnd on the 'martyr' issue - Winifrid was famously martyred and then resurrected to live to a decent old age
Have you heard of this fairly obscure St Winifred's well? On the supposed route of the journey the saint's relics took from her burial site in Gwytherin to the abbey in Shrewsbury. An event which inspired the first of the Ellis Peters Cadfael medieval mystery novels. My friend Andy and I planned our route from Shrewsbury to Holywell to pass by.St Winifred also belongs to the company of cephalophores (head-bearing saints) that includes St Denis. I often refer to her decapitation and miraculous recapitation when teaching Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and draw attention to the Winifred’s Well in Dublin's Temple Bar - woefully misused these days as a receptacle for rubbish - but, strangely, few students share my fascination.
Have you heard of this fairly obscure St Winifred's well? On the supposed route of the journey the saint's relics took from her burial site in Gwytherin to the abbey in Shrewsbury. An event which inspired the first of the Ellis Peters Cadfael medieval mystery novels. My friend Andy and I planned our route from Shrewsbury to Holywell to pass by.
Holiday at St Winifred's Well, Woolston, near Oswestry, Shropshire | The Landmark Trust
www.landmarktrust.org.uk
An incredibly powerful Saint, my mother has been on receiving end of his intentions and dedicates her time to visiting people in our local area with his holy relic, MIT, a rose scent features when he is presentPadre Pio
I just realized that now is 18th September in Spain which makes it exactly a year from when we started our Camino Frances! Thank you for this post as it made me check my starting date in my diary otherwise the anniversary would have gone past unnoticed. St Sophia is the Saint, by the way.Hi - just a thought .... the day you set out .. whose feast day is that?
Here is a Catholic calendar of saints ............... it defaults to the current day but just below the saints banner you can alter the month and day ... find your saint and then Google them for their life story .. carry that with you as you walk?
You can look up the saint/s for your birth date too! The two on my birthdate were both Franciscans (March 6th).
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints.html
Enjoy! (if that is the right word)
Buen Camino.
I don't know about all the others but I'm pretty sure this should be July instead of June.Thank you David for your Saints' Calendar. Let me add a shortlist of Saints modern pilgrim meets along Via Tolosana and Camino Frances. Their feast days fall on:
June
2 Saint Juan de Ortega (San Juan de Ortega, Camino Frances)
7 Saint Fermin (Pamplona, Camino Frances); also in September
25 SAINT JAMES THE GREAT (SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA)
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