Category: Photo of the Day 2013

Just one final photo from the murals in the monastery albergue of the Real Monasterio de San Julián de Samos. This image depicts Saint Martin of Tours, a very popular saint along the Camino and indeed throughout the world. Here the saint is depicted cutting his own cloak in two, so as to give half to a beggar. Tomorrow: back […]

We set off the next morning from the monastery albergue of the Real Monasterio de San Julián de Samos. I previously posted one photo from the interior, but here you can see a small number of the murals that decorate every wall of every room of this space. Date: 27 April 2013Place: Samos (Province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain)Today started: Samos […]

This is probably the last photo I’ll post for now of the interior of the Real Monasterio de San Julián de Samos. I took many more, but it’s time to move on. And pretty much all of them are various degrees of blurry anyway. Here we see the sanctuary of the great monastic church, with its two altars and two […]

In the course of my liturgical volunteerism, I’ve worked in a lot of sacristies, but I think I can say with confidence that none of them approach the size or serenity of the one found in the Real Monasterio de San Julián de Samos. It is big, but the monastery once had dozens of priests, and the church itself is […]

As we continued our tour of the inside of the Real Monasterio de San Julián de Samos, there were two constants: the deep beauty and grandeur of the place, and the grainy and blurry photos taken by my high-tech iPhone-4. This was 2013, after all. The interiors of the main level are all painted with stunning, almost-life-sized murals, and I […]

Here’s another view of the beautiful monastery cloister of the magnificent Real Monasterio de San Julián de Samos. It is, by design, a little slice of Eden. Date: 26 April 2013Place: Samos (Province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain)Today started: Fonfría (Province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain)

Once we were settled into the monastery albergue in Samos (and had showered), we took a little tour of the monastery itself. This is a photo of the beautiful monastery cloister. I think this is quite the nicest one I saw in Spain. Date: 26 April 2013Place: Samos (Province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain)Today started: Fonfría (Province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain)

The interior of the monastery albergue in Samos is covered in pseudo-medieval illustrations like this. I’m particularly taken with a series of vignettes that follow the months of the calendar around the crypt-like great room like a mural version of a book of hours. Next week we’re likely to have some additional scenes posted. Date: 26 April 2013Place: Samos (Province […]