Walking the Camino de Santiago
Over a period of several days, I’m posting images of some – just a few really – of the side chapels of Navarrete’s Iglesia Nuestra de la Señora Asunción de María. Some of them are even in focus. I have many, many more images of this beautiful church in the Flickr gallery. I could spend a year here. Date: 07 […]
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Over a period of several days, I’m posting images of some – just a few really – of the side chapels of Navarrete’s Iglesia Nuestra de la Señora Asunción de María. Some of them are even in focus. I have many, many more images of this beautiful church in the Flickr gallery. I could spend a year here. Date: 07 […]
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Over the next few days, I’ll be posting images of some – just a few really – of the side chapels of Navarrete’s Iglesia Nuestra de la Señora Asunción de María. Some of them are even in focus. I have many, many more images of this beautiful church in the Flickr gallery. I could spend a year here. Date: 07 […]
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On today’s Feast of the Purification, here is a close-up of the high altar of Navarrete’s Iglesia Nuestra de la Señora Asunción de María. Specifically, you can see in the center above the tabernacle the statue of Our Lady of the Assumption. She is, in many ways, the “inciting incident” that finally propelled me into the Catholic Church. Above the […]
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A turn of the head, and suddenly you see the high altar of Navarrete’s Iglesia Nuestra de la Señora Asunción de María. It is a Baroque masterpiece, and it is very difficult to photograph well. I took any number of pictures, and this one is the closest I came to being in focus. It is simply overwhelming. And there are […]
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Once in through the main doors of Navarrete’s Iglesia Nuestra de la Señora Asunción de María, you are confronted by this colourful altar with polychrome busts of Saints Justa and Rufina. These third-century martyrs from Seville are venerated throughout Spain and have long been a subject for local artists. My suspicion is that these are reliquaries, but I don’t know […]
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This is the entrance to Navarrete’s great Iglesia Nuestra de la Señora Asunción de María. The door to the left, like one in the Cathedral in Pamplona, was designated as a Holy Door for the Jubilee Year of Mercy. They were only the second set of Holy Doors we encountered on our Camino, and these were by far the best […]
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This is the signage that the town of Navarrete uses to mark the Camino on the sidewalks along the route. This is by far my favourite symbol of the Camino, incorporating both the traditional shell and the cross of Saint James. At some point, I will finally get my Camino tattoo, and it will be based on this image. Edited […]
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I just love the towns that provide maps for pilgrims! As you can see, the town surrounds the base of Tedeón hill, on top of which once stood a great defensive castle. This is not the first, nor will it be the last, town on the Camino that is arranged like this. Nowadays, mostly the hill is used to graze […]
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Just of the left of the road as you approach Navarrete, there is something that looks like a short wall, or the outline of a building. It ranges from one to two meters high. This is all that’s left of the medieval hostal San Juan de Acre. You can sort of see it in this photo. Over the centuries, albergues […]
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