PILGRIMAGE TO HERESY

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by Tracy Saunders

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A Spanish Gnostic bishop argues for his life in the year 385...

A modern day pilgrim searches for the keys to her existence...

And an ancient text binds them both.

PILGRIMAGE TO HERESY

is a tale of intrigue which asks disturbing questions about the nature of faith and pilgrimage.

The Catholic Church would rather you didn’t learn the answers!

For centuries it has been claimed that St. James is buried in the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela, Spain - the Holy Grail of pilgrims for over 1200 years.

But what if he is not?

What if the occupant is none other than Priscillian, a "heretic", a man whose Gnostic message threatened to undo the power of the newly-formed Roman Church?

The Camino de Santiago, Spain, 2000 CE.

Miranda has left her untenured position at the University of Toronto to go on a 800 kilometre hike in the north of Spain. On her second day walking, she meets Kieran, a lapsed candidate for the priesthood, who is translating a book written in Latin: a book he shouldn't have.

The next day, Kieran is missing, and so is his translation!

All Miranda is left by way of an explanation is a draft of a novel he is writing: “I’ll see you in Puente,” he says in a note. But on her arrival at the next stop, he is no-where to be found.

As she continues along St. James’ Way, Miranda and her companions become immersed in three puzzles:

Who was Priscillian? Who is "Blackbeard"?

And most of all...Where is Kieran?

A Religious Injustice...

Two Love Stories, One Doomed From the Start...

And a Mystery........Perhaps

Trier, Gaul, 385 C.E.

Priscillian of Avila: a wealthy former Senator, a charismatic bishop with a huge following in his native Galicia, argues for his life against his accusers, two powerful Spanish bishops who win the ready ear of the new Emperor, Maximus. .

Along with eight of his closest followers including Eucrotia, the widow of a Roman noble, Priscillian is accused of witchcraft and heresy.

Yet his message is one of celibacy, simplicity, and gentleness

Is he guilty?

Now available at all Bookworld Espana shops, and also at ENCONTROS in Santiago de Compostela as well as to order online.

Click Here for ordering information

Peregrinos de la Herejía translation of Pilgrimage to Heresy in Spanish released June 3rd 2009 by Editoriales BÓVEDA a new imprint of Algaida Publishing Spain a member of the ANAYA Group

Click Here to view a pdf transcript in English of the Noble LineageTV interview (in Spanish with subtitles in many languages).

Transcript courtesy of Geert Bakker, PelgrimsPad

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LOS LIBROS DE MI VIDA

"Peregrinos de la Herejía es un libro muy del estilo Dan Brown, (por si a alguno le gusta es tipo de libros), aunque me ha parecido bastante mejor que el del Código Da Vinci, la verdad. Está escrito con maestría y engancha desde el principio. La historia incluso me ha parecido plausible, lo que viendo la temática, sorprende aún más.

Tracy Saunders escribe genial, la verdad. Hacía mucho que no leía nada de esta temática, y la verdad que le he cogido gusto. No recordaba lo buenos que son los libros buenos- Supongo que por efecto colateral de Dan... En fin...

La historia está genial contada, tiene un ritmo muy bueno, y cada página te lleva a la siguiente. Los personajes, pese a que me han parecido algo arquetípicos, están bastante bien, y tienen buenos diálogos, cosa que me ha sorprendido aún más.

Tracy Saunders hace fácil lo difícil, que es dotar de vida a una trama como ésta, en la que el peso religioso es enorme, es el tema central del libro, y lo hace genial, sin pasarse con moralinas ni nada parecido, lo que mejora la historia. Con un ritmo vertiginoso, nos conduce hasta un desenlace que no dejará a nadie indiferente, os lo aseguro: Querréis MÁS!"

Three years in the researching and over a year in the writing

ST JAMES' ROOSTER

A Book for Pilgrims and Kingmakers

AVAILABLE NOW!

Y EN ESPAÑOL....

Peregrinos de la Herejia, along with 5 other Camino related novels such as Matilde Asensi's Iacobus and Paolo Coelho's El Peregrino, was featured in a February 11th weekend writers conference in Almuñecar, Spain on the subject of "What Makes a Good Camino story?".