The rally at the Civic Center before the Walk itself featured a slate of prominent pro-life activists and speakers, and San Francisco’s Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone read a special message to the Walk from Pope Francis.īut in addition to the familiar, the 13th annual Walk for Life took place in the context of two new, and related, elements-the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump the day before in Washington, DC, and the Women’s March taking place later that day along the very same route the as the pro-life walk. Lots of up-beat pro-life signage, lots of babies in strollers, lots of Catholic religious in clerical garb and habits (Dominicans in their striking black and white were particularly well-represented).
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The Northern Saints Trails Visitor Guide is a 55-page full colour guide that includes route descriptions and maps of the six Northern Saints Trails.ĭetails of how to purchase the Northern Saints Passport and the Northern Saints Trails Visitor Guide can be found on the websiteįor full route descriptions download the documents below.The Walk for Life West Coast, held on Saturday, January 21, was full of familiar sights for the approximately 50,000 pro-lifers who gathered in San Francisco from around the Bay Area and from elsewhere in California and across the country. View the current participating venues, with new locations added regularly. The Northern Saints Passport allows visitors to collect stamps at attractions and places to eat and drink along the six Northern Saints routes. Look out for venues that showcase the passport icon on the Northern Saints Trails website. If its final climb, Mountjoy, is anything to go by, it will leave hikers feeling very happy indeed. Nor does the path stay stuck in the past: just tarry in revitalised Bishop Auckland to see how history has been honed into some fascinating new attractions.Īs it twists through gentle farmland, woodland, parkland and riverside, and via some sensational country cafés, pubs, hotels and spas, The Way of Life is a walk that soothes more than it tires.
This is alongside some jaw-dropping monuments to the people that once made their living hereabouts: one of the biggest Roman fortifications in Northern Britain, Binchester Roman Fort, and the locomotive legacy of the world’s first passenger carrying, steam operated, public railway, built by George Stephenson, at Etherley Incline. Then there are the tales of two different miracles attributed to St Cuthbert to unravel as you forge north towards Durham Cathedral.
There is the ancient residence of the Prince Bishops of Durham, Auckland Castle, only recently restored to its full glory.
There is the captivating but understated Escomb Saxon Church, perhaps England’s oldest still-complete Saxon church. Holy places lie scattered all along this trail. The Way of Life commences in the most rejuvenative manner possible at one of Durham’s loveliest villages, the spa village of Gainford: a vital early Christian settlement raised around St Mary’s Church and Well, alongside waters thought to have had healing properties since pagan times.
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The Way of Life is one wondrous route: healing waters, one of England’s oldest churches and a palatial castle where Prince Bishops once resided, plus places where St Cuthbert made miracles occur.
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