Pilgrims on the Way

Here was our unassuming albergue in Navarrete: La Casa del Peregrino. It might not look like much on the outside, but there was a comfortable common room, where we enjoyed a common meal with a horde of pilgrims from all over the world. In my journal, I recorded “Austrians, Dutch, South Africans, Anita from Norway, Danes, and a Pole who […]

Here we are, glancing down the south side aisle of Navarrete’s Iglesia Nuestra de la Señora Asunción de María. We are standing at the Holy Door and looking past several side altars to another side altar on the far wall. On the very edge of the photo on the left, we can see the blurry brilliance of the high altar. […]

This is one display case from the small museum attached to the sacristy of Navarrete’s Iglesia Nuestra de la Señora Asunción de María. It is amazing, and certainly worth a visit when you are in town. There are much larger ecclesial museums on the Camino, but this one has a charm rarely seen in the larger ones. Date: 07 April […]

Over a period of several days, I’ve posted images of some of the side chapels of Navarrete’s Iglesia Nuestra de la Señora Asunción de María. This is the last I’m going to post. I have many, many more images of this beautiful church in the Flickr gallery. I could spend a year here. Date: 07 April 2016 Place: Navarrete (La […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]