Re your editorial (The Guardian view on pilgrimage: a Twenty first-century religious train, 14 April), my sister has simply accomplished her third pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
On this journey she met a younger man who was strolling the five hundred miles together with his probation officer. He had had the selection of strolling the Camino or going to jail; for what offence she didn’t uncover, however over the six weeks of strolling she reviews that she noticed a change within the health and basic wellbeing of each males. It might appear that the males and the justice system in Spain benefited.
Norma Neill
Askernish, South Uist
As somebody who has participated in pilgrimages through the years, I was most to learn your editorial. Though it’s having one thing of a renaissance, it has at all times been a staple of many individuals’s lives and experiences. It’s right to state that it’s now not utterly within the church area, as many religious wayfarers don’t belong to anybody faith or certainly religion.
However there’s a sense of wanting to find one thing past their very own lives, or of it being executed for therapeutic causes. It saddens me to witness the dire state of affairs in Israel and Gaza; having had the privilege to take part in two pilgrimages there, I can solely hope and pray that there’s a simply and peaceable decision quickly.
Judith A Daniels
Nice Yarmouth, Norfolk
