From Messina to Santiago de Compostela: it is the path of the faithful of the city of the Strait who also this year have been the protagonists of an itinerant experience of extraordinary faith. The initiative organized by the Parish of Santa Maria Incoronata di Camaro Superiore with the Confraternity of San Giacomo Apostolo, involved 21 Pellegrini: from Vigo to Santiago, eight days of walking, eight stages.
An even more enriching experience this year with the choice of the “spiritual variant”, that is, the primitive path that traces the “Traslareio”, the legendary journey of the body of San Giacomo from the Holy Land to Galicia. According to tradition, in 44 after Christ theodore and Athanasius, disciples of San Giacomo, decided to translate his body into the farthest place reached in the itinerary of evangelization. With him they made the rounds of the Mediterranean, skirting the Iberian peninsula and, once the Portuguese coasts have been overcome, entered the summer of the Arousa river and from there in that of the Ogue, up to the city of master. This path faithfully reproduces the stages followed by the apostle until its definitive burial in Santiago de Compostela.
To coordinate the journey together with the parish priest Msgr. Francesco La Camera, Mariagrazia Billè and one of the members of the Confraternity of San Giacomo Apostolo, Carmelo Schepisi. “We are happy, said the room, to share an experience that has now consolidated: the pilgrims live in fullness of faith this journey, which is also an opportunity to reconcile themselves with themselves, stopping in places of great beauty”. The Messina pilgrims who arrived in Santiago delivered the offers collected on the occasion of the feast of San Giacomo to the cathedral in July and placed the intentions of the faithful at the foot of the apostle tomb.