Isn the pilgrimage just for religious people ?
By no means. You will in fact meet relatively few pilgrims with an expressly religious/catholic motivation, though you’ll meet equally few who deny any interest in its spiritual side. Precisely because it is so broadly defined, it attracts seekers of many different kinds who, almost invariably, will be willing to exchange their life-stories for yours. Moreover, you’ll come face-to-face with people from all over the world, whose approach to the pilgrimage may be radically different from yours. As a sample, we are including a French pilgrim’s answer to this very question, virtually untranslatable into English – see what we mean. You may like to read two essays by our former chairman, Laurie Dennett (To be a pilgrim … and Gifts and Reflections), which accurately reflect the present-day experience of the pilgrimage.
