The St. Louis Chapter’s very own Deborah Weltman invites her fellow pilgrims to a launch party for her new Camino memoir, “Camino Lessons: Losing Twenty-First Century Fears on an Ancient Pilgrimage Trail”. Following are details Deborah shared: “After an 11 year ‘pregnancy’, my book has finally been born! ‘Camino Lessons: Losing 21st Century Fears on…

For almost 40 years, the Confraternity of St. James has been providing information and support to pilgrims on Camino routes in Spain, Portugal, France, and Germany. More recently, the organization has started to discover, promote, and signpost the old routes that medieval British pilgrims would have taken on their way to Santiago, thus establishing new…

Music is intrinsic to the Camino de Santiago, the now-revived pilgrimage route through Europe, across northern Spain to the cathedral city of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia. Indeed, the 12th-century tome that in some sense is the basis of the Camino, the Codex Calixtinus, has as its first book the treatise on music and sermons…

Music is intrinsic to the Camino de Santiago, the now-revived pilgrimage route through Europe, across northern Spain to the cathedral city of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia. Indeed, the 12th-century tome that in some sense is the basis of the Camino, the Codex Calixtinus, has as its first book the treatise on music and sermons…

Music is intrinsic to the Camino de Santiago, the now-revived pilgrimage route through Europe, across northern Spain to the cathedral city of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia. Indeed, the 12th-century tome that in some sense is the basis of the Camino, the Codex Calixtinus, has as its first book the treatise on music and sermons…

Planning is underway for the 2022 Annual Gathering of Pilgrims Mark your calendars, pilgrims! The 2022 Gathering team is planning the 25th Anniversary Gathering of Pilgrims, set to take place Thursday, March 31 to Sunday, April 3, 2022. The Gathering will return to the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly in Black Mountain NC (just outside Asheville),…

Join pilgrims for an opportunity to talk all things Camino. We’ll answer questions, share stories, and reflect on our journeys together. Members – please check your email for the registration information.

Join us for time with author and speaker Alexander John Shaia. Joseph Campbell (the great US mythologist) said that unless one makes an adequate return to ordinary life, the hero’s quest is unfulfilled. In this talk, we will consider the outer needs and inner attitudes that support our return from the Camino. Members – please check…

Cynthia J Hoffman, a familiar face at STL chapter events, will talk about her experiences walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain and the St. Rose Phillippine Duchesne pilgrimage along the Katy Trail in Missouri. She will also share about the concept of pilgrimage as it exists in major religions, including Christianity, Judaism, and Islam,…

“The Changing Nature of Pilgrimage in a Globalizing World” An Interdisciplinary Conference Sponsored by The Institute for Pilgrimage Studies, College of William & Mary Alternative pilgrimage Pilgrimage and wellness Building local pilgrimages Secular pilgrimage Teaching Pilgrimage Technology and Pilgrimage https://www.wm.edu/sites/pilgrimage/