Reviews for Pilgrimage to Heresy
“Pilgrimage to Heresy is essential reading for all Pilgrims bound for the Camino de Santiago, and those who have completed the Pilgrimage and still wonder why. I would be surprised if you don’t find yourself here.” 
Mervyn Street, Alternative Faiths
 
“I was looking for an excuse to go back to the Camino, and now I have one!”  

Liz Callahan, Ohio, USA

"A different look at the Camino and the idea of pilgrimage in the 21st century. The story of Priscillian of Avila, though well known in Spain, is virtually unknown to most modern pilgrims outside of it. Pilgrimage to Heresy introduces us to Priscillian with the teasing suggestion of a mystery. Well worth a look."  TopicsCraze.

"While I was walking the Camino, I had so many questions. By the time I reached Santiago de Compostela, I realised I had answered most of the personal ones. But one questioned remained: what about the "myths" of Santiago?  How much was true?  Why did I make this walk? This book did not provide me with answers: in fact, it opened up more questions, and some I wasn't entirely comfortable with, even now.  But it gave me the opportunity to view my camino as just that: "My Camino". In it I realised that I only had to believe in what I had experienced. It didn't matter what my guidebook told me. It only mattered what I had arrived with."
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"Pilgrimage to Heresy offers a fascinating insight into the turbulent times that transformed Christianity from personal belief into organized religion.  Beautifully written, the story weaves between the ancient past and the modern day pilgrims on the route to Santiago in a way which clearly illustrates the relevance the ancient martyrs have to our troubled world today.
T.L. Hurst, "Chasing Calvini"

Comparisons between this book and suspense novels such as The Da Vinci Code are inevitable, but unfortunate and misguided.  Pilgrimage to Heresy is a work of much greater depth and complexity and in a totally different genre altogether. " 

"If you like mystery, intrigue, history, religion, philosophy, spirituality, travel and romance, then you need to read Pilgrimage to Heresy. The narrative centres on a real-life controversy about whose saintly bones actually lie buried in the Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain, a cathedral dedicated to St. James the Apostle. The action takes place along the Camino, an ancient pilgrimage route, and the drama unfolds amidst a colorful backdrop of the stories of various pilgrims from around the world, the challenging terrain,the spiritual journey of the main protagonist, Miranda, and a mysterious manuscript about Priscillian of Avila, an early Christian condemned to death on charges of heresy by the Catholic Church. Although a fictional account, the book raises many serious questions about church dogma, early Christian history and gnosticism and is based on extensive research. Well worth the read."

Sylvia Baago, Brock University, Canada




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