Pilgrims gather outside the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain July 25, 2011. Pope Francis wrote a letter to the Santiago archbishop Dec. 31 to mark the opening of the Holy Door at the ...

The historic links between Guinness' St. James’s Gate in Dublin and the Catholic pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, in ...

De stad werd aan het eind van de 10e eeuw verwoest door de moslims ... masterpiece of Romanesque art, Santiago de Compostela conserves a valuable historic centre, known as one of Christianity´s ...

now the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. This year is the perfect time to join them: according to an ancient papal edict, if you pass through the cathedral’s holy door in a year when the ...

In the Middle Ages, the whole idea was to arrive in the holy city of Santiago de Compostela, and you started at your own front door; there was no official “starting point”. Because it was ...

The earliest recorded pilgrim visit to Santiago de Compostela came in the 9th Century ... The furthest north is known as Piedras Santas, or Holy Stones, and is where, according to legend, the ...

The Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica ... “But there are also others outside Rome, such as the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela [Spain], the Basilica of Santa Maria di Collemaggio in L ...

The “church of the chickens” is only one of the homespun, non-touristy and somewhat otherworldly attractions found along the Camino de Santiago de Compostela ... 2010 was a Holy Year and ...

Many a foot-weary pilgrim must feel relief when hobbling into Santiago de Compostela ... and it has been trading off its holy relics ever since. The capital of coast-nibbled Galicia, Spain's ...