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The Pilgrim as a Historian
be easy, but it remains a popular pursuit – even for non-believers. Every September two friends and I go on pilgrimage.
Growing enthusiasm for the Camino de Santiago over recent decades attests to an increasing desire to undertake this demanding physical expression of medieval Christian devotion, even as church attendance slumps. It is not, however, an attempt to pay a visit to a single moment in the past – in this instance, the late tenth century, when the cult took off with remarkable speed (most saints in Anglo-Saxon England were very recently dead). In other words, he created a replica Anglo-Saxon minster, albeit in the anachronistic style which he believed to be quintessentially Catholic, close to the spot where Augustine had brought Catholicism to England.
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