Please join the Board of Directors for a recap of 2024 and learn about our plans for 2025. Board members will share information and answer your questions.

This year, your donations and membership dues enabled us to distribute over $100,000 in grants for European organizations supporting the Camino. Come hear about the direct impact your support makes for pilgrims on multiple Camino paths. Board Member Ruben Mendoza will facilitate the discussion with several grant recipients and translate, when necessary. Members check your…

A Catholic Mass dedicated to “Pilgrims on the Camino” will be celebrated at St. Martin of Tours Church. There will be a brief commissioning service, including a pilgrim blessing. For those starting the Camino this year, bring your backpack, your staff (walking sticks), and your shell for the blessing. Following the church service, a group…

The Center for Spiritual Living will host STL pilgrim Deborah Terra Weltman, who will read from her book,”Camino Lessons: Losing 21st Century Fears on an Ancient Pilgrimage Trail”. “Camino Lessons” is a memoir of the many serendipitous and improbable events that occurred when Deborah quit “waffling and wanting” and committed to her big dream of…

If you plan to walk the Camino this year, please join us for our virtual Shell Ceremony.  American Pilgrims Board Members will lead us in a celebration of your upcoming walk. If you have a shell you plan to bring, please have it near you. If you need a shell, you can order one from…

Announcing American Pilgrims’ Next 2024 Hospitalero Training Session: May 31 to June 2, 2024 Ferry Beach Retreat and Conference Center 5 Morris Avenue Saco, ME 04072 Our next hospitalero training session of 2024 will be held from May 31 to June 2, 2024, at the Ferry Beach Retreat and Conference Center in Saco, ME. The venue is near…

Bring a café con leche and join us to talk all things Camino! We’ll welcome everyone and share our stories and questions. If you haven’t walked, bring your questions. If you’re a Camino veteran, bring your knowledge and tips. If we have a big group, we’ll move into breakout rooms to give attendees more time…

The Camino de Santiago is a network of pilgrims’ ways or pilgrimages leading to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where tradition holds the remains of the apostle James are buried. There are several routes, but the two most popular are the Camino Francés (the French Way) about 500 miles…

Please join us for Dr. Dawn Bratsch-Prince’s presentation on Spanish culture.  This presentation highlights 10 basic cultural concepts that every pilgrim should know before starting their Camino journey in Spain. Please see your member email for the registration link.

Chances are good you will enter a few churches on your Camino. Most of us, alas, can’t recognize as many saints as an illiterate 13th-century peasant – which can leave us wishing we knew a little bit more about who or what we are looking at. Join Dr. Kiki Lawson as she helps you identify…