Walking to the Saints

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Praise for
Walking to the Saints :
"The chronicle of a lifelong journey of spiritual discovery is told with reverence, reality and humour. As Anne McPherson follows the wanderings of medieval pilgrims, her vivid responses to ancient French \ churches and abbeys echoed my own feelings of wonder at the sheer weight of time one feels in France. This book is a welcome invitation to explore the sense of eternity expressed by these hallowed buildings, and to join in the author's contemplation of what it is to be divine or human. Christian or pagan, male or female, ancient or modern.
"I was reminded, in the comments on the nomadic nature of the pilgrims, that the word 'saunter' comes from '¦sainte terré" (holy land) - a thought very much in keeping with the unhurried rambles that can be taken through this excellent book."
- Timothy Findley, author of The Wars and Pilgrim, internationally acclaimed playwright and novelist
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"A deeply personal account of a love affair with France... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Praise for
Walking to the Saints :
"The chronicle of a lifelong journey of spiritual discovery is told with reverence, reality and humour. As Anne McPherson follows the wanderings of medieval pilgrims, her vivid responses to ancient French \ churches and abbeys echoed my own feelings of wonder at the sheer weight of time one feels in France. This book is a welcome invitation to explore the sense of eternity expressed by these hallowed buildings, and to join in the author's contemplation of what it is to be divine or human. Christian or pagan, male or female, ancient or modern.
"I was reminded, in the comments on the nomadic nature of the pilgrims, that the word 'saunter' comes from '¦sainte terré" (holy land) - a thought very much in keeping with the unhurried rambles that can be taken through this excellent book."
- Timothy Findley, author of The Wars and Pilgrim, internationally acclaimed playwright and novelist
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"A deeply personal account of a love affair with France and her Romanesque churches, written by a born pilgrim (this is a woman who knows what is important), out of extensive life-experience. Anne McPherson travels restlessly, indomitably, with openness and honesty; she interrogates everything she finds. The reader will find it well worth hearing what she comes back to tell us."
- Margaret Visser, author of Much Depends on Dinner and Geometry of Love, social commentator and author
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"From tk time I was five years old I knew France to be an enchanting country, a place of dreams "
For Anne McPherson, this impression became more and more entrenched with the passing years. In Walking to the Saints, she visits time-honoured sites along France's medieval pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela, reflecting on the architecture, the spiritual universe of medieval people, and the connections and contradictions between earlier theology and contemporary feminist thought. At the same time she discovers that each site, with its sainted patron and antique heroes, mirrors part of her own hfe's journey.
With intelligence, freshness and wit, Anne McPherson invites readers to join her in walking to the saints.
The text is complemented by original, evocative drawings by well-known Canadian artist Tony Urquhart. Vissza