18 voices in the Camino; Martin Sheen

[dandekay]

just another pilgrim.... aren't we all?    (thanks for the story and the
reminder, Liz).
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From: "Elizabeth Boylston-Morris" <TagelleaAOL.COM>
To: <GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: 18 voices in the Camino; Martin Sheen


> One of our writers, Maribel, arrived in Santiago last month  on a
Thursday,
> June 5, in the late afternoon after walking from Sarria.  The next morning
she
> went to the Cathedral around 9:30 to admire its art treasures and to wait
for
> the Pilgrims Mass.
> As she was studying the details of the Portico de la Gloria she found
herself
> shoulder to shoulder with Martin Sheen. She tells us that she smiled at
him
> happily surprised and blurted out "You are Martin Sheen", and he told her
> smiling" I'm just another pilgrim today".
> Maribel recounts that he was alone,  wearing simple jeans and a tee shirt
and
> without sun glasses or any of the accruements of movie stars.  She recalls
> that he remained in the Cathedral until the Pilgrims Mass and that while
quite a
> few people recognized him and shook his hand no one seemed to ask him  to
> pose for photographs or to write autographs.
> After Mass he went out of the Cathedral with the throng of worshipers....
> just another pilgrim.
> Liz
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