gocamino 2005 Pilgrim Gathering

[Kathy Gower]

Hola,

I have rec'd a numbr of requests for the 2005 Annual Gathering program and 
dates, so I'll post this here...more to come as the dates get closer...

A Gathering of Pilgrims
A Celebration
of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela
Toronto 2005



Dates: May 10 to 17
Location: The University of St. Michael’s College, The University of 
Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
Conference Committee:  Barbara and Anthony Capucitti, Robert Crew, Tom 
Gabriele, Alexandra Guerson, Sue Kenney, Nancy Mallet, Steven Pede, Lupe 
Rodrigeuz, Wanda Sawicki, Robert Ward


CONFERENCE MODULES

I.	Hospitalero Training: May 10 to 12

II.	The Gathering: May 13 to 15

III.	The Retreat: May 15 to 17

Hospitalero Training
May 10 to May 12: Sessions and Activities:

?	Tuesday, May 10: Registration / Charbonnel Lounge

Tuesday Evening: Reception (6:30 PM)



?	Wednesday and Thursday, May 11 and 12: Hospitalero Training
The Tradition of Hospitality on the Camino
Welcoming Pilgrims
Expectations of the Hospitalero
Refugio Management: The Hospitalero in the community

?	Wednesday night, May 11: Vespers / Gregorian Chant
?	Thursday afternoon, May 12: Conferral of the Office of Hospitalero
?	Toronto Hike Friday 9 to 1, May 13

The Gathering
May 13 to May 15: Sessions and Activities:

Friday PM , May 13

?	Registration 3 PM / Brennan Lounge / Brennan Hall
?	Evening reception and meal: Brennan Lounge/Brennan Hall
?	Welcome: George Greenia
?	Acknowledge recently returned pilgrims
?	Introductions / Overview of Weekend (George Greenia & Lupe Rodriguez)
?	Galician Folk Dancing & Spanish Guitar
?	Compline  and Gregorian Chant at 9:30 PM in St. Basil’s

Saturday, May 14
?	Mass at St. Basil’s: 7 am
?	Breakfast (served 7:00 to 8:15 AM): Canada Room / Brennan Hall
?	Presentations (begin promptly at 8:30 AM): Alumni Hall

Richard Gyug, Fordham University

Medieval Pilgrimage and the Modern Experience

The motives of modern pilgrims and walkers are as varied and
diverse as the lives and routines they have left to travel the Camino. What
they find on the Camino is equally varied, but several common threads make
it a shared experience. It is also an experience that is shared across
centuries. Indeed, much of what gives meaning to the Camino has its roots
in the medieval pilgrimage: the motion toward a common destination, the
landscape of mountains and plains over which pilgrims have trod since the
Middle Ages, the shrines, churches, hospices and bridges founded in the
distant past, and the images and legends along the way. The physical and
mental world created by and for medieval pilgrims survives in the
historical setting of the modern Camino; transformed, adapted and
re-interpreted it continues to meet the needs of modern pilgrims.
Joseph Goering, The University of Toronto

The Holy Grail in Spain

An illustrated lecture discussing the various claims, old and new, that the 
Holy Grail is to be sought in Spain. Special attention will be paid to a 
12th century chalice in the church of O Cebreiro, on the pilgrim route, and 
to an even older chalice, now in the cathedral in Valencia, but originally 
preserved in the pilgrim route near Jaca. Both have long traditions 
associating them with the Holy Grail. A new hypothesis about the Pyrennean 
origins of the Grail legends will also be proposed.


Sheila Campbell, The University of Toronto

The Places of Pilgrimage

As an introduction, we shall look at a few examples of early pilgrimage 
sites. How do we identify a site as one dedicated to pilgrimage? What are 
the sources of information? After a brief look at sites in the Holy Land, 
and the travels of Egeria, we shall consider the attractions of St. Menas 
(Egypt), St. Simeon (Syria), St. Alban (England), and finally the monastic 
site of Alahan (Asia Minor), which almost certainly was a pilgrimage site, 
but for whom or what, we do not know.

Laurie Dennett, The Confraternity of Saint James

Two Thousand Years of the Camino de Santiago : where did it come from, where 
is it going?

How did the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela originate? How did a local 
cult evolve into a devotional phenomenon that by the twelfth century was 
attracting some 100,000 pilgrims a year from all over Europe to the far-off 
Galician shrine of the apostle St James the Great?

This overview of the history and development of the pilgrimage will place 
special emphasis on three areas: first, the literary tradition linking St 
James with Galicia in the centuries before the reported discovery of his 
tomb; next, the political currents and considerations underlying the 
emergence of the Camino Frances as the major route across northern Spain, 
and the resulting interplay of cultural influences across the Pyrenees to 
the rest of Europe. Finally, the resurgence of the pilgrimage in the late 
twentieth century prompts comparison with that earlier period of great 
numbers and great enthusiasms. What does today's pilgrimage contribute to a 
world increasingly at odds with its historic ideals? Where does today's 
Camino lead, beyond Compostela, for its increasingly international band of 
devotees?


?	Lunch (12:15 to 2 PM): Canada Room / Brennan Hall

Concurrent Workshops

?	Labyrinth Workshop (1:30 to 5PM): Brennan Lounge / Brennan Hall


?	Workshops (2 to 5 PM): Alumni Hall

?	Alternate routes:
Kathy Gower: walking from Le Puy
Anthony and Barbara: walking the Via de la Plata
Alan Joyce: walking the northern route
Sue Kenney: walking the Portuguese route

?	Spiritual / Motivational
Beverly Chen: “The Labyrinth: A path of pilgrimage”
Sue Kenney: The Pilgrim's Way: Using rituals to create your desired 
destination.
Gail Lash: “Walking in Harmony and Ease: Using spiritual / energy tools to 
connect with your inner self and diverse peoples”
Wanda Sawicki: “Sharing the Gold: Integrating trans-formative experience 
through creativity and spirituality”
Tai Chi Clinic: Breathing, meditation, and pain management

?	Practical Interest
Tom Gabriele: Novice Q & A
MEC: Boots, clothing, packs, poles
Daniel DeKay: Wilderness Medicine
Laurie Dennett: The Confraternity of St. James / London, England
Robert Crew: The food and wine of Spain

?	Pilgrim Latin Mass and Blessing (6 PM): Newman Center Chapel / Gregorian 
chant

?	Dinner: Trinity College Strachan Hall
Reception: Trinity College Courtyard (6:30PM)
Formal dinner served: 7:30PM
Entertainment: performance of Sine Nomine at 9:30PM


Sunday AM (May 15)
?	Mass at St. Basil’s: 7am

?	Breakfast: (served from 7:00 am to 8:15 AM): Canada Room / Brennan Hall

?	Presentations (begin promptly at 8:30): Alumni Hall



A. Taylor, University of Ottawa

The Sword of Roland at Rocamadour: A Lost Tale from the Camino

Pilgrims have always been great story-tellers but stories were also used to 
attract pilgrims to shrines, many of which drew on the services of minstrels 
to enhance their reputation. In this talk I will try and reconstruct one of 
these stories, that of Charlemagne’s greatest knight, Roland, and how his 
sword Durendal came to be lodged in the stone at Rocamadour (where, 
according to some, it could still be seen as late as the 1780s). The shrine 
at Rocamadour, in central France, was an easy detour for pilgrims working 
their way down the main route from Le Puy, and the stories of the miracles 
performed by Our Lady of Rocamadour encouraged many pilgrims to come there. 
>From a combination of early chronicles and local legends we can piece 
together the story of Rocamadour’s greatest miracle as a thirteenth-century 
minstrel might have told it, explaining first the connection between 
Charlemagne and Roland, who were regarded as early pilgrims, and Our Lady of 
Rocamadour, who joined Saint James in the battle to reconquer Spain, and 
then how Roland’s sword came to Rocamadour.


Edward Maeder, Director of Exhibitions/Curator of Textiles
Historic Deerfield, Inc.

Pilgrim’s Progress-Travel Attire in the Middle Ages

Travelers have always been at the mercy of local bandits and outlaws who 
would have been attracted to any display of wealth. Pilgrims were, 
therefore, required by law, if not by common sense, to display the purpose 
of their journey through their clothing. Pilgrim hats, markedly 
unfashionable to contemporary eyes, can easily be detected in 13th and 14th 
century paintings, manuscripts and woodcuts by the informed modern observer. 
The kinds of clothing worn, the materials used and how they reflected the 
pilgrim's connection to their religious intentions are the subjects of this 
illustrated presentation.

Luisa Nardini, Columbia University

Music at Santiago de Compostela: The Codex Calixtinus and the Musical 
Iconography of the Cathedral.

The music performed at Santiago de Compostela during the Middle Ages must 
have been highly diversified in styles and functions. Chant, early 
polyphony, and other devotional music were certainly performed at different 
times and with different purposes in the north-Galician town. This 
presentation will illustrate various aspects and problems related to the 
music played and sung in Santiago in the 12th-13th centuries focusing on the 
exceptional testimony of the Codex Calixtinus and on the musical iconography 
of the sculptures of the cathedral.





Osmund Overby, University of Missouri
		Lessons in architectural history on the Camino
As pilgrims we walk past and visit countless wonderful works of 
architecture--churches especially, of course, but also many other kinds of 
structures--historic bridges, monasteries, palaces, castle ruins, all those 
practical buildings in vernacular styles that create the wonderfully 
picturesque towns along the way. The goal of this session is to provide ways 
to understand these works better and to appreciate them more deeply. 
Architects talk about buildings in terms of 1) their function or planning, 
2) their structure or technology, and 3) their expressive character or 
beauty. All three of these determinants evolve through time and place, and 
we will look at that historical process in some examples we know from the 
Camino to get at the  who, what, how, and why of the buildings and how they 
affect our experience of pilgrimage.
?	Lunch (12:30 to 2 PM): Canada Room / Brennan Hall

?	Toronto Hike: 2 to 6PM

?	Gathering guests depart


The Retreat
May 15 to May 17: Sessions and Activities:

Meetings to be held in Charbonnel Lounge and adjoining courtyard

?	Retreat registration begins at 4 PM, Sunday afternoon / Charbonnel Lounge

?	Sunday, May 15: reception in Charbonnel Lounge (6:30)

?	Retreat: Monday and Tuesday in Charbonnel Lounge

?	Guests depart Tuesday afternoon, May 17