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Pilgrimage: The Road to Santiago episode 3

The Seven Celebrities' [Neil Morrissey (actor), Debbie McGee (entertainer), Ed Byrne (a comedian), Heather Small (singer), Kate Bottley (vicar), Raphael Rowe (journalist) and JJ Chalmers (presenter)] journey on the Camino finishes this Friday at nine as they walk the last 100km of the French way to Santiago.



Image from http://www.irishnews.com/lifestyle/2018/03/12/news/pilgrimage-the-road-to-santiago-we-had-the-greatest-time-say-seven-celebs-1271609/






The BBC website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09xy8f7) says that, 'Priest Kate still dreads the walk, but non-believer Raph is beginning to enjoy the opportunity it is giving him to appreciate his surroundings,' and also tells us that they stop at a river to talk to the man who runs the British Pilgrimage Trust (http://britishpilgrimage.org/) Guy Hayward. This is a group that promotes Pilgrimage in Britain so maybe they would have done better to ask someone from The Confraternity of Saint James (https://www.csj.org.uk/) to come and talk to the group, we will have to see on Friday.


Guy explains the meaning of River Pilgrimage and Ed and Kate 'take a dip' in the river.





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