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Article: FOOTSORE IN GALICIA.
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- May 21, 1999
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Pilgrim Stories On and off the Road to Santiago Nancy Louise Frey University of California Press, $17.95, 326 pp.
Three years ago I walked 1,000 miles across France and Spain in the company of strangers. What brought us together was that we were all doing something rather strange, namely making a medieval pilgrimage to the tomb of a saint who next to nobody today believes is entombed there.
The pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain-to the tomb of the Apostle Saint James the Greater, son of Zebedee and brother of John-has enjoyed all kinds of strange fortunes in its twelve-hundred- year history, and the last thirty or so years have ...