The Road from Canterbury to Rome is known as the Via Francigena or Sigeric’s Itinerary. But who was Sigeric?
Foccacia, the most famous Roman bread Claudio Rampinini - Shutterstock
Pilgrimages to Rome and Santiago de Compostela have, over the centuries, built up an extremely rich and varied network of routes and recipes often labeled as “of the pilgrim”
Christian pilgrimages arose spontaneously in the early centuries as believers visited the places associated with the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth
Outstanding Italian Cistercian monastery of the early thirteenth century, on the Way of St. Benedict and the Via Francigena del Sud.
Though Lembas may be a just a literary creation, the actual spirit of “pilgrim’s bread” transcends the boundaries of Middle-Earth.
Orvieto Cathedral is more than a stunning Gothic duomo, it’s the place where Corpus Christi feast was born
Over the centuries, the monks of the Great St. Bernard Hospice began breeding large, powerful dogs to assist them in their rescue missions
In Sicily, more than three hundred churches are dedicated to Saint James the Apostle. A stretch of the famed Way of St. James also crosses the island.
The village of Montesiepi in Siena is home to a (literally) legendary relic - the Sword of Saint Galgano. The sword is embedded upright in a massive rock, à la…