The Charlotte Chapter will be hosting Tanya Valdes for our April monthly meeting. Tanya received her “summons” for her heroine’s journey (Joseph Campbell, Alexander John Shaia) while undergoing chemo for stage 3 lymphoma. At the time she was reading The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho. The current “bookend” of her journey finds her in Oia, Spain…

Tad Carter will share his inspirational experience completing the 400-mile Virtual Camino de Santiago Challenge during stay at home COVID restrictions in late 2020.

February Chapter meeting via Zoom – St. James Jubilee Celebration The organizing committee will discuss the Jubilee and answer your questions Register through the REGISTER link above 6:30 pm February 16, 2021 Hear more about this exciting opportunity to meet and talk Camino with other pilgrims from across the nation. Organizing committee members Tom Labuzienski…

The Camino Ignaciano – Rosa Torres-Tumazos, a veteran of 14 Caminos, completed the Ignaciano in 2019. Rosa will be sharing her amazing Camino at our January chapter meeting. The Camino Ignaciano consists of 27 stages and starts in the Basque lands and passes thru La Rioja, Navarre and Aragón to Catalan lands ending in Manresa.…

November 17, 2020 6:30 pm Discussion (via Zoom) with Author Angela Leslee In the Charlotte Chapter’s continuing author series, we are delighted to host on November 17 Angela Leslee discussing her new book The Way of Love on the Camino de Santiago. Please join this pilgrim as she shares her vulnerability in landing, contrary to her…

Pandemic as Pilgrimage – A Community Conversation on a Pilgrimage that could be taken right now – Lead by Lynda Boozer: I opened my inbox the other day to a new post and the words: “Pandemic as Pilgrimage.” Janet Connor, the writer and a woman whose wisdom I respect, was suggesting that in this shelter…