What follows is my attempt to chronicle and recreate a few of experiences in Spain and France this summer for those interested. Focus primarily will rest on history and religion, and in particular the history that lives in the churches and castles that line the pilgrim roads to Santiago Compostella in Spain.

The Muslim conquest of the Holy Land in the Seventh and Eighth centuries caused the traditional pilgrimage to Jerusalem to become increasingly dangerous. As the Middle Ages unfolded, the journey across the Pyrenees and into Spain to the traditional burial place of St. James became the dominant pilgrimage route. The results were dramatic. The first great wave of Christian churches in the Middle Ages sprung up along the pilgrim roads - the age of Romanesque was born. Architecture, spirituality, culture and politics would all be dramatically affected by the great mass of Medieval Christians on the road to Compostella.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

The House of Saint Ignatius


This house, built in the 15th C., is where Ignatius was born and had his conversion as he was healing.


Isabel climbed her first stairs in the home of Ignatius! She spontaneously crawled over to the stairs and began going up on her own.
This was the altar, given by Queen Isabel, that was in the family chapel.

At the feast of Ignatius in the town square these Equadorians were playing the traditional pan pipe music...with deam cathers and Sioux headresses. The Spanish partygoers didn't seem to cath the discrepancy.
Oli and Isabel at the feast



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