“We feel that the stones are worn: thousands of people have passed before us and thousands of others will tread them after us”
, observes Gilles-Noël, 61, from Versailles (Yvelines).
This former senior executive at Sodexo resumed his pilgrim's staff, at Easter, on a fragment of one of the roads to Santiago de Compostela, between Vézelay and Cluny, in Burgundy.
He then branched off towards Italy, on the way to Assisi, by which he returned at the beginning of July.
"In the footsteps of Saint Francis, it was more about communion with nature: I only felt this spiritual power on the way to Compostela!"
, compares the one who had joined in one go the tomb of the apostle Saint-Jacques, in Spain, ten years ago.
He had returned transformed, reconverted since in the associative environment and mediation.
The most popular route to Saint James in France is the via Podiensis, or “voie du Puy”, 1515 kilometers from Le Puy-en-Velay, in Haute-Loire…
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