The Pilgrim’s Italy: A Travel Guide to the Saints (Colleen Heater) (Paperback)
May 17, 2009 by Destination Guide
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“The Pilgrim’s Italy is a joyous addition to the growing literature of soulful travel guides. I recommend it to anyone who wants to turn his or her travels into a sacred journey.”
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“Pilgrims are not tourists. They have come, quietly and humbly, to seek the holy and enter more deeply into God’s Blessedness. The Heaters have found this stillness for themselves and here set out to share its essentials with anyone who earnestly seek God.” — Sister Wendy Beckett, Author/PBS Host
“…a joyous addition to the growing literature of soulful travel guides. I recommend it.” — Phil Cousineau, author of The Art of Pilgrimage and The Book of Roads
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It really never occurred to me that I might use The Pilgrim’s Italy: A Travel Guide to the Saints as an actual guide book to understand the religious culture of Italy. Then, my husband and I found ourselves charmed and immersed in the religious culture of the exquisite Italian countryside (and cities) where we found our unlikely travel companion in this book to be invaluable. For example, as foot tourists in Northern Italy, we were rescued by The Pilgrim’s Guide from our destination dilemma when we found ourselves at the train station in Menestra instead of Venice! Thankfully, The Pilgrim’s Guide was very helpful. The book says, when you are in Mesestra, you still must take another train to get into Venice. Why can’t other travel books be so simple and specific? One might also read The Pilgrim’s Italy for its delightful short biographies of Italy’s most popular (and plentiful!) saints, but it’s an inspirational read as well as a marvelous travel book.
The Pilgrim’s Italy is a wonderful travel book, packed with information on pilgrimmage sites, places to stay, and all the details you need to make your trip fabulous experience. Carefully researched and fact checked, nicely organized and easy to read, with lots of pictures, this book is a bargain.
We found The Pilgrim’s Italy a wonderful travel companion. It’s engagingly written with lots of useful information; a book which is both useful for travel and fun to read. The authors provide all the details for getting around, and, on a deeper level, convey the spirit of visiting these holy places. Pilgrim’s Italy is a wonderful book.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Like a spiritual Rick Steves. Don’t forget your toothbrush & this book!
A refreshing and honest take on the old “guide book” you’ve been reading forever. Everyone knows where to find the museums, restaurants and tourist traps…
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Aggravating and insipid
This review is directed towards Catholics, not curiosity seekers.
“The Pilgrim’s guide to Italy” was written by a couple of practitioners of an Indian religion…
2.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome Catholic Pilgrim Guide Book of Italy
This book was an awesome reference on my recent pilgrimage of Catholic Italy with my church. Father Daren and several people asked me if they could use the book during the trip…
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Religious travels in Italy
A very good guide if you are going to Italy, and want to venerate the Italian saints during your holiday.
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Great book!
I just purchased this book and already I’m using it to plan our next trip. The information on how to find the pilgrimage sites, hours, lodging, etc, are thorough and helpful.
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Life-changing trip to Italy
In 2004 I took a trip to Italy. My intent was to seek out places of high spiritual vibration (due to the historical presence of saints) and to meditate in those places.
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Great Resource for Inspiration and fun
We traveled for a month in Italy and it was wonderful to have this book at our side. Suddenly we would find ourselves in a new area and look up the region in the book, only to…
5.0 out of 5 stars
EXPERIENCING ITALY THROUGH THE SAINTS
We just spent 3 weeks in the Assisi area of Italy in May 2007. The book, The Pilgrim’s Italy:A Travel Guide to the Saints was invaluable.
2.0 out of 5 stars
No St. Benedict or St. Scholatica
I received this book today and am unpleasantly surprised and dismayed that I cannot find in it St. Benedict, sometimes called the father of western monasticism, nor his sister St…
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Spiritual Side of Italy
Forget Roman Holiday, the Milan Fashion Shows, and trying to figure out if the Da Vinci Code is true (it’s not)….