Paths and pilgrimages: Pilgrim Meetings for 2023-2024

Friday November 17, 2023: Hike or pilgrim: why follow in the footsteps of the saints?

Round table moderated by Gaële de La Brosse, journalist at the weekly Pilgrim.
From 7:30 p.m. to 9:45 p.m.

More and more hikers are choosing to walk on pilgrimage paths, under the protection of saints: James the Greater, Mary, Michael, Martin, Gilles, Francis of Assisi, Peter, Ignatius, Colomban, Guilhem, Jean-François Régis , Yves, the seven saints of Tro Breiz and many others. What are their motivations? What differentiates the hiker from the pilgrim?

Three writers, familiar with different paths, will share their experience:

• Xavier Accart , writer and journalist; author in particular of The Sleeper of Ephesus (Tallandier, 2019) and Tro Breiz, my inner Brittany (Salvator, 2023)
• Luke Adrian , writer and journalist; author in particular of Compostela. A pilgrim’s travel diary (Presses de la Renaissance, 2002) and Little pilgrim prayers (Mame, 2021)
• Jean-Pierre Musialowski , retired teacher, long-distance pilgrim; author of Holy path. A 25,000 km pilgrimage on foot (self-published, 2022) and 27 emotions on the paths to Compostela and elsewhere (self-published, 2023)

At the end of this round table:

• Announcement of the results of the short story competition on the theme “Beyond borders”, organized by the Compostelle 2000 association, and prize giving
• Author signing session
• Organizer stands
• Friendship Glass

Friday January 19, 2024: Walking: personal development or spiritual journey?

Round table moderated by Frédéric Rochet, director of Forum104.
From 7:30 p.m. to 9:45 p.m.

Walking to know oneself, to find oneself, to heal: in our century losing its bearings, the paths have become the ideal terrain for taking stock of one’s life. “The journey,” says a proverb, “is going from oneself to oneself via others.” Would walking give the answer to all our questions?

A writerA psychoanalyst and one pilgrim of Santiago will testify and answer questions from the public:

• Blaise Pruvost , comic book author; author in particular of the graphic novel Six months and another. A path to Compostela (Steinkis, 2023)
• Patrick Tudoret , writer; author in particular of The man who fled the Nobel… all the way to Compostela (Grasset, 2015; Mon Poche, 2018), While walking. Little traveling rhetoric (Taillandier, 2023) and Little book of friendship (Salvator, 2023)
• Jean-Guilhem Xerri , psychoanalyst, coach and supervisor; author in particular of Take care of your soul (Cerf, 2018); (Re)live from the inside (Cerf, 2019); Deep life. Daily spiritual health (Deer, 2021)

At the end of this round table:

• Presentation of the winning photos of the photo competition organized by the French Society of Friends of Santiago de Compostela
• Author signing session
• Organizer stands
• Friendship Glass

Friday March 1, 2024: The path to the stars

Show written and performed by Raphaëlle Vincent, multidisciplinary artist.
From 7:30 p.m. to 9:45 p.m.

Every night, Raphaëlle Vincent had the same dream: “Go on the path to the star, a treasure awaits you there!” So, in the summer of 2022, she set off on the path to Puy-en-Velay, asking those she met with the question: “And you, what is your dream?”

In a spiritual approach to the pilgrimage, she has collected more than 60 testimonies, recordings, written and drawn portraits. With these dreams, these words, these flavors and these colors, a show was created in homage to the star that guides us. Aided by painted books, frescoes and recorded testimonies, the artist unfolds before our eyes this universe which encourages us to continue our path with confidence.

At the end of this show, which will be held in the Notre-Dame-des-Anges chapel (Forum104):

• Discussions with Raphaëlle Vincent
• Organizer stands
• Friendship Glass

Friday May 24, 2024: Walk to nature school

Round table moderated by Gaële de La Brosse, journalist at the weekly Pilgrim.
From 7:30 p.m. to 9:45 p.m.

“It is a sad thing to think that nature speaks and that humankind does not listen,” wrote Victor Hugo. Yet she has so much to teach us! The walkers know it, or discover it on the way.

Three witnesses will give us some advice to better understand this fragile nature and to protect it by being “eco-pilgrims”:

• George Feterman associate professor of Earth Life Sciences and president of the ARBRES association, author in particular of The most remarkable trees in France (Albin Michel, 2022) and Nature on the paths of Saint-Jacques (Delachaux and Niestlé, 2023)
• Colette Nys-Mazure writer, author notably of Each dawn will remain first for you (L’atelier des noyers, 2020) and By paths of intimate depth (Salvator, 2022)
• Antoine de Suremain director and adventurer, author of Walking in the desert on the paths of Saint Guilhem (Salvator, March 2024)

At the end of this round table:

• Author signing session
• Organizer stands
• Friendship Glass

Sunday November 26, 2023 in Rochefort: screening of the film “The Way. La route ensemble”, followed by a debate

As part of the Christian Cinema Festival in the Rochefort region, including Pilgrim is a partner, the film The Way. The road together (by Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheen) will be screened on Sunday, November 26 at 3:45 p.m., at the Apollo Ciné 8 cinema in Rochefort (1 cours Roy Bry). This screening will be followed by an exchange with Gaële de La Brosse, collaborator at Pilgrim, and a signing session. The evening will end around 7:30 p.m.

Reservations recommended on the cinema website (three weeks in advance).

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