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En route to Compostella

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I will be going to Compostella for a few days next week.  Not on foot but by the car ferry to Santander and then on four wheels.  I have never been before.  There is a huge mystery about the rise of this place as a shrine and about how it became associated with St James.  The story is that a tomb was revealed to be that of the Apostle centuries after his death.  The shrine was visited by pilgrims from all over Europe in the Middle Ages.  St James became the patron of Spain.  Soon after the death of our St Teresa, many people wanted to make her co-patron of the nation with him – such was the enormous reverence and respect and love for her.  It almost came about, but in the end the opposition was too strong.  Opponents did not have a problem with Teresa as such, they only felt it was not seemly to put her on the same pedestal with one who was no less than an Apostle.

 

Owing to technical problems, this blog will be suspended for the duration of my travels – until Monday 21 October.

 

Intercessions:

B, struggling with brain cancer, and his wife A.

Im, a young mother struggling with cancer.

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