After #ThomasBecket was assassinated in #CanterburyCathedral on 29 Dec 1170, reports of miraculous healing started to circulate within a week, and pilgrim numbers soared. The vibrant colours of the #StainedGlass windows around his shrine may have seemed almost as wondrous to #medieval visitors as the #miracles they depict.
Today is the feast of St #ThomasBecket, assassinated in #CanterburyCathedral#OTD 1170. Reports of miraculous healing started to circulate within a week. The vibrant #StainedGlass windows around his shrine may have seemed almost as wondrous to visiting pilgrims as the #miracles they depict.
Pilgrimage to the End of the World: The Road to Santiago de Compostela
In this chronicle of his travels to this captivating place, Conrad Rudolph melds the ancient and the contemporary, the spiritual and the physical, in a book that is at once travel guide, literary work, historical study, and memoir.
Peeking out from an ancient hermitage cave near Salgotarján, Hungary - I'm again reminded how much our souls relish moments when we can be at one with Nature's Sacred spaces.
Many Hindus, Buddhists and people who follow the shamanic religion of Bon undertake a pilgrimage each year to northern Nepal to look for ancient Shaligrams, which they believe to have an intrinsic consciousness.
But #climatechange and gravel mining are altering the course of the Kali Gandaki river, endangering the pilgrimage and making it harder to find Shaligrams
Can't remember if I posted these before... the iconic wonky poles marking the Pilgrim route to Lindisfarne. I had some unforgettable companions on the way.