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Travels With a Stick: A Pilgrim's Journey to Santiago de Compostela

Travels With a Stick: A Pilgrim's Journey to Santiago de Compostela

Travels With a Stick: A Pilgrim's Journey to Santiago de Compostela
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Travels With a Stick: A Pilgrim's Journey to Santiago de Compostela

Travels With a Stick: A Pilgrim's Journey to Santiago de Compostela

Overview

Almost 300,000 people ‘officially’ complete the journey to Santiago each year – hundreds of thousands more travel at least part of the way.

In this book, Richard Frazer discovers on his pilgrimage to the shrine of St James the Great how a journey – wherever it is made – undertaken with an open and hospitable heart can provide spiritual renewal and transformation, filling what many people see as the spiritual void in 21st century life.

This absorbing account reveals how the pilgrim journey can be nourishment for the human heart. It connects us to landscape and brings us to the mystery of what it is to be human and vulnerable and open to the kindness of strangers and the gift of the new and the unexpected.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780275680
Publisher: Birlinn, Limited
Publication date: 06/25/2019
Pages: 208
Sales rank: 1,100,857
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Richard Frazer is minister of Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh. He founded and chairs the Grassmarket Community Project, which helps the most vulnerable. He has been influential in the revival of pilgrimage in Scotland and in the Church of Scotland’s decision to officially promote and revive pilgrimage after 450 years.

Alastair McIntosh is an independent writer, broadcaster, speaker and activist who is involved in a wide range of contemporary issues, from land reform, globalization and nonviolence to psychology, spirituality and ecology.

Alastair McIntosh is an independent writer, broadcaster, speaker and activist who is involved in a wide range of contemporary issues, from land reform, globalization and nonviolence to psychology, spirituality and ecology.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Map x

Foreword xiii

Prologue: Meeting St Jacques 1

1 Setting Off 15

2 Le Puy-en-Velay 22

3 The Beast of Gévaudan 31

4 The Kindness of Strangers 43

5 Get Thee to a Nunnery 49

6 The Rule of Resonance 53

7 Bread-sharer for the Journey 59

8 Journey to Middle-earth 64

9 The Coupar Angus of France 68

10 The Interior Pilgrimage 73

11 Last Day in France 77

12 Into Spain 82

13 A Pilgrim Community 91

14 The Human Torch 98

15 The Pilgrim's Tale 106

16 Unexpected Encounter 124

17 Chicken in the Church 136

18 Mind-numbing Meseta 146

19 Deviation to Santander 158

20 Poisoned Food - Poisoned Relationships? 167

21 Into the Mountains 180

22 Santiago, Mata Moros 195

23 Nearing Santiago 202

Acknowledgements 217

Bibliography 219

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