The Monday, March 8, a group of university students and staff of the Residence, we the opportunity to visit the Cathedral. One of the most beautiful temples and lacristiandad attractants. The guide was telling his story and artistic content.
In the vestry, we saw up close the famous BUTAFUMEIRO. And despite scaffolding, admire the artistic wonder that encloses the Portico.
The friendly guide gave us not only see, even touch the tomb of the saint, before which congregate every day thousands of pilgrims.
"Whoever goes up, but up sad, lively and cheerful,
to see the splendid beauty of this temple ..."
covers the cathedral, a significant moment of our visit, since we saw them and rĂșas squares that surround this beautiful Romanesque church dl time covered through Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque ...
Beautiful and interesting visit. We encourage you to do it, you'll like.
PILGRIM CROSS
25 years ago, an Easter Sunday in 1984, John Paul II, entrusting to them , the world, represented in Rome a simple wooden cross, 3.8, m. high. I threw her a challenge, "Carry it throughout the world as a sign of God's love Jesus to humanity, and announce to everyone, that only in Christ, DEAD AND RISEN find salvation and redemption. "
During 25 years the cross pilgrim, visited the remotest corners of the earth, entered the communist European countries, to finish going through the Brandenburg Gate, visited Ground Zero in Manhattan after the attack on the Twin Towers, has visited the poorest countries, has been transported in a sleigh by Eskimos of Canada ... But first and foremost has chaired the World Day Youth Day (WYD). That year, a group of young English Cruz has received the chair WYD year 1011 in Madrid. Cruz is the pilgrimage, which every year attracts thousands of young people from five continents around it, fulfilling the words of John in one of his letters "I write to you young people, because you are strong and the Word of God abides in you and you have overcome the evil one "(1 John, 2:14). The Youth Day to be held here in Santiago on August 5,6,7,8, being the Jubilee year, are a preparation for an international meeting to be held in Madrid in 2011.
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