A community of UNM professors, graduate students and seniors gathered at the Colegiata de Santillana del Mar in Spain as part of a tour called "Camino de Santiago' led by Professors Enrique Lamadrid and Tony Cardenas.
Students prepared for the trip by reading the Medieval Spanish literature of pilgrimage, and the anthropology and theology of pilgrimage. The group prepared for their walking by making New Mexico pilgrimages to Chimayo and Tome Hill this spring.
According to Lamadrid, the group is walking the coastal route of the Camino de Santiago. They spent the afternoon on a secluded beach named Santa Justa, for a hermitage built into a cave there.
Other plans were to visit the Picos de Europa area to climb up a high mountain to another hermitage and to the monastery of Santo Toribio de Liebana, which was a Christian refugee camp when the Moors invaded Spain.
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Posted by scarr at June 1, 2004 04:14 PM