On the evening before our motley group of 14 Herald pilgrims headed off on our 108 km trek from Terni towards Assisi, we gathered at a little wine café across the street from our modest hotel for “welcome drinks”. As I entered the café, I was glad to see some familiar faces from previous Herald pilgrimages to Fatima and Santiago. As ever on pilgrimage, our pilgrim band comprised a colourfully Chaucerian range of professions and backgrounds, from a 1980s rock band member to a former high-ranking Home Office civil servant to an English sticky-toffee pudding entrepreneur working in the US.
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A journey of contrasts: leading Herald pilgrims along the Way of St Francis
on the evening before our motley group of 14 herald pilgrims headed off on our 108 km trek from terni towards assisi, we gathered at a littl...
William Cash
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