Way of St. James

about St. James ' retaliations against non-believers who questioned his power. Constable translates a story about Saracens who took over Compostela, and "by divine retribution, some of them were afflicted by looseness of the bowels, and shot whatever they had in their bellies out through their back passages. Others lost the sight of their eyes and wandered blindly about the church and the city." This account demonstrates what could happen if one did not show proper respect towards St. James. This

The Camino Day 1: We left the College on Saturday, the 6th of May. The flight departed at 11:45 and we didn’t arrive at Biarritz until 2:50. Then we got a bus from the airport to St Jean Pied de Port, a small village at the base of the Pyrenees Mountains. When we got to St Jean, I was taken aback by the town. It was a mixture of old streets and building from centuries ago and modern roads and shops. We had a mass in the local parish before we got to explore the town. It was late by then so most

What was interesting about this specific chapter was that normally the type of art is connected to the specific area where the art was created. Romanesque art however is not specifically connect to any one area. Although it was first noticed in Europe, this style of art was seen in many different places, using many different references, and techniques of past works, and cultures. When the trade routes were reopened in Europe the economy of the surrounding areas flourished, which helped the spread

There is no denying the fact that Paulo Coelho with more than a dozen novels to his credit has emerged as a contemporary literary figure of international repute. The Pilgrimage marks his entry into the world of fiction with a bang followed by a big bang in the form of his most popular novel The Alchemist. No doubt, The Alchemist has earned him immense popularity far and wide and established him as a novelist of consummate skill. His other novels which include The Valkyries, Like the Flowing River

beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow, " A.C. Benson. In the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer speaks of a pilgrimage, or religion journey, and the many people who go with him. The tales are made up of each persons story that they tell along the way. Each of these characters adds to his great story told by Chaucer, however, the question is posed, who could he had from this century that would influence this pilgrimage? There are many types of people who could be added as characters to Chaucer 's

In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, various people band together to go on a pilgrimage from England to Canterbury. Their aim is to see a shrine of St Thomas Beckett, the revered Archbishop of Canterbury who had reportedly healed others when they were ill. The pilgrims have a variety of occupations and are divided fairly evenly amongst the three estates (clergy, nobility, and commoners). The pilgrims who are members of the clergy are ironically depicted as the least moral, compared to the

decrepit inns and taverns; "we lodged in a hovel-it was so mean, you could not call it an inn. All we had to eat were a few chestnuts, with water to drink, and we had to sleep on a great heap of dried leaves" (Hall 36). His education comes out in the way in which he chooses to recount his experiences. Most guidebooks spend a lot of time describing the ascetics of a place. Laffi skims over such descriptions and spends a greater amount of time in describing buildings and cannons by means of measurements

during any time or at any place. Some of the pilgrims in class have asked me, why are you going on this pilgrimage? What does Santiago mean to you? My immediate response was, “I am on this pilgrimage because I felt like there is a better way to see. There is a better way to hear. My mind and heart has been clogged from traumatizing circumstances. I just want to breathe and smell better.” After I said that, I wondered what my eye doctor would think if she knew I abandoned my bifocal glasses in the hopes

However, the narrator refers to the main character as "the boy", instead of saying the character's name. This is because Paulo is using the third person view in an unusual way. Unlike other stories that are specific stories, Paulo uses the third person view to remind everyone that "The Alchemist" is everybody's story. For example, in "The Alchemist", the main character travels to new places, meets new people, learns new aspects

Paulo Coelho is a famous author that has written many popular works in these past few decades. He is most notably known for The Alchemist, which was written in 1988. The Alchemist was “one of the greatest best-sellers of all times” (Kaaki). During his lifetime, Coelho went through many obstacles; the most notable event was getting an electrical shock when he was in a mental institution and getting placed into prison. He was able to move past all of these difficulties and became a well-known author