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So a few weeks ago I finished a pilgrimage in Spain. In a world that seems daily rocked by strife and the confusions of a modern age walking a 1000 year-old pilgrimage route seems a little out of place. Standing a few weeks away from it I already miss the simplicity of the road. That […]

James the son of Zebedee is one of the only apostles whose death is recorded in the New Testament. In Acts 12 Herod kills him with a sword. 700 years later a legend arose that James had been a missionary in a country now known as Spain. His disciples returned his body to the land […]