Tag: Pilgrimages
In the Abode of the Gods
by Jeffrey Tayler | 07.10.13 | 11:22 AM ET
Jeffrey Tayler treks a Buddhist pilgrimage route through China's remotest, high-altitude domains
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Yahoo! BuzzInterview with Gideon Lewis-Kraus: ‘A Sense of Direction’
by Frank Bures | 04.25.12 | 10:07 AM ET
Author photo by Rose Lichter Marck Frank Bures talks to the author about pilgrimage, authenticity and traveling in a world of infinite choices
‘Europe’s First Travel Guide’ Missing From Santiago de Compostela Cathedral
by Michael Yessis | 07.07.11 | 6:33 PM ET
The Codex Calixtinus was reported missing Wednesday by distraught staff at the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral. The 12th century illustrated manuscript was “compiled as a guidebook for medieval pilgrims following the Way of Saint James,” according to the BBC.
This is the oldest copy of the manuscript and is unsaleable on the open market.
Only a handful of people had access to the room in which it was kept.
This edition of the Codex Calixtinus is thought to date from around 1150.
Its purpose was largely practical—to collect advice of use to pilgrims heading to the shrine there. It also included sermons and homilies to St James.
The Guardian adds:
The local Correo Gallego newspaper reported that distraught cathedral staff spent hours searching for the manuscript before contacting police late that night.
“Although security systems have been improved considerably it is true to say that they are not of the kind one might find in a bank or a well-protected jewellers,” the newspaper reported.
Only five security cameras were used to watch the archive area, according to the newspaper, and none were pointing directly at the safe where the priceless manuscript was stored.
A Pilgrimage to Vailima
by Catherine Watson | 10.06.10 | 11:28 AM ET
By Catherine Watson An hour into her quest to visit Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa, Catherine Watson ran out of water and lost the trail. What would persistence bring?
Victory at the Louvre
by Erin Byrne | 08.11.10 | 10:50 AM ET
Erin Byrne never let her mask slip, until a headless, armless Greek statue taught her a lesson she couldn't ignore
The Audacity of David
by Christopher Seneca | 12.04.09 | 10:28 AM ET
Christopher Seneca was losing faith in the world. Then he went to see Michelangelo's masterpiece.
Photo You Must See: Preparing for the Hajj in Mecca
by World Hum | 11.24.09 | 12:13 PM ET
REUTERS/Caren Firouz Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba inside the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca after morning prayers, and before the start of this year’s hajj pilgrimage.
Back to the Garden?
by Eva Holland | 08.25.09 | 10:35 AM ET
ERIC THAYER / Reuters On the festival's 40th anniversary, Eva Holland goes looking for the spirit of Woodstock
Incident in a Spanish Church
by Catherine Watson | 12.15.05 | 7:28 PM ET
Photo from Spanish Tourism. She never spoke to the boy in the red windbreaker. But Catherine Watson's encounter with her fellow pilgrim along the road to Santiago de Compostela transformed her in an unexpected way.
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