Pilgrimage to Heresy: Don't Believe Everything They Tell You - Softcover

Saunders, Tracy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595469124 ISBN 13: 9780595469123

Publisher: iUniverse, 2007

Synopsis

PILGRIMAGE TO HERESY is a tale of intrigue which asks disturbing questions about the nature of faith and pilgrimage.
The Catholic Church would rather you didn't learn the answers!

Trier, Gaul, 385 C.E.
Priscillian of Avila: A wealthy former Senator, a charismatic bishop with a huge following in his native Galicia, argues for his life against his accusers, two powerful Spanish bishops who win the ready ear of the new Emperor, Maximus. Priscillian and his entourage are accused of witchcraft and heresy.

Yet his message is one of celibacy, simplicity, and gentleness. Is he guilty?

For centuries, it has been claimed that St. James is buried in the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain-the Holy Grail of pilgrims for over 1200 years. But what if he is not?

What if the occupant is none other than Priscillian, a man whose Gnostic message threatened to undo the power of the newly formed Roman church?

The Camino de Santiago, Spain, 2000 C.E.

Miranda has left her untenured position at the University of Toronto to go on a 800 kilometers hike in the north of Spain. On her second day walking in the Pyrenees, she meets Kieran, a lapsed candidate for the priesthood, who is translating a book written in Latin: a book he shouldn't have!

The next day, Kieran is missing, and so is his translation.

A religious injustice ...
Two love stories: one doomed from the start ...
And a mystery ... perhaps

About this title

Review:

"Pilgrimage to Heresy is essential reading for all Pilgrims bound for the Camino de Santiago, and those who have completed the Pilgrimage and still wonder why. I would be surprised if you don't find yourself here." -- Mervyn Street, Alternative Faiths

"A different look at the Camino and the idea of pilgrimage in the 21st century. The story of Priscillian of Avila, though well known in Spain, is virtually unknown to most modern pilgrims outside of it. Pilgrimage to Heresy introduces us to Priscillian with the teasing suggestion of a mystery. Well worth a look." -- Topics Craze: Hot Topics!

"I was looking for an excuse to go back to the Caminode Santiago. Now I have one!" -- Liz Callahan, USA

"While I was walking the Camino, I had so many questions. By the time I reached Santiago de Compostela, I realised I had answered most of the personal ones. But one questioned remained: what about the "myths" of Santiago? How much was true? Why did I make this walk? This book did not provide me with answers: in fact, it opened up more questions, and some I wasn't entirely comfortable with, even now. But it gave me the opportunity to view my camino as just that: 'My Camino'. In it I realised that I only had to believe in what I had experienced. It didn't matter what my guidebook told me. It only mattered what I had arrived with."
-- Anonymous. Posted on Website pilgrimagetoheresy.com

From the Author:

Tags: Camino de Santiago; Way of St. James; Pilgrimage; Gnosticism; Priscillian; Alternative Faiths

About this edition

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0595469124
• ISBN 13: 9780595469123
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 373