La via di Santiago

Year: 2006 Pages: 248 The pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela has become very popular in recent times, so much so that in 2004 it recorded a participation of one hundred and eighty thousand people. What induces such a large crowd, coming from all corners of the Earth, to undertake a journey that was already of faith? Devotion, certainly, for most. For the lay people, who also flock in large numbers, the reasons are different and disparate, sometimes obscure. For Natalino Russo, who traveled the Camino de Santiago along three different itineraries, the initial beliefs were transformed from stage to stage, through the reflections aroused by meetings with occasional traveling companions, until the emergence of profound and unexpected motivations . The Way of Santiago is the story of an inner journey undertaken in the wake of a great collective event that has been repeated for over a millennium in an atmosphere of fervor that has made it rightly famous.