
The 5,000th pilgrim is coming…
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We have great news: the starter pack for the 5,000th pilgrim has been packed!
Barely 4.5 years after our opening - on 21 June 2015 - and with a major provincial prize in our pocket - the Gelderland Landscape Election - we can safely say…

Usher in your pilgrimage with our pilgrim lauds
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"You're missing more than you're experiencing..."
Every first Saturday, half an hour after sunrise, we read a recital from our Book of Hours: Seasons of Life (Intermedi-Art, 2015). This time, the reader on duty chose a piece by writer…

“There used to be four of us” – Stuart and Rita’s Walk of Wisdom
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Walk of Wisdom, Beek
As a pioneer of the Walk of Wisdom , I thought I knew in 2015 what pilgrimage is: on the road for days on end, without contact with the supporters, away from your own home. That's what I thought! Four years later, I watched…

New series of silent walks: the Walk of Wisdom one year around
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Walk of Wisdom Ooijpolder, Yolanda van Diepen
On Saturday 28 September we will start with the third "Walk of Wisdom in a year around": a series of guided silent walks in which we walk the Walk of Wisdom in ten stages in a year time. An average…

Action Home Sparrow!
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Volunteers Jon Wouda (Vogelwerkgroep Nijmegen e.o.) and Damiaan Messing (Walk of Wisdom)
In the sweltering late August days, together with the Bird Working Group Nijmegen and surroundings, we delivered 43 nesting boxes for house sparrows to…

Pilgrim monastery near the Meuse
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A pilgrim monastery in the Netherlands? "We already have the silence." An interview with the man behind the 18th century monastery halfway along our route where many pilgrims have spent the night: Mark van der Linden of Avant Spirit. A…

Richard and Natalie’s Walk of Wisdom
selection, Stories from pilgrimsPilgrim Richard Göbel-Frieswijk walked the Walk of Wisdom with his wife Natalie. You can find his report here.

First registration address abroad: Belgium
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"Let friendship heal what boundaries share". Grenspaal, Walk of Wisdom, Berg en Dal.
Pilgrims from Belgium can now register for the Walk of Wisdom Netherlands at the information point of the Compostela Society in Mechelen without postage.…

Ivanhoe!
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Stevenspedel at the pilgrim's lauds
Last month, I filled in as the 'Stevenspedel', the one who guides our sunrise departure ceremony in the Stevenskerk. On the first Saturday of the month, a little after sunrise, I went in a brocade blue…
Yolanda van DiepenPrepared on the road with a pilgrim coach
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Departure ceremony Walk of Wisdom, by Yolanda van Diepen
"The first day I didn't have the guts to tell people who spoke to me that I was running for a reason. But the third day - against two men, no less! - I blurted it out: I'm running for…
