Pilgrimage to the Holy Land

From Manresa the pilgrim set out on the long journey to Jerusalem.  Braving the dangers of a war-torn Mediterranean, he begged his way to the Holy Land.  Here he spent time devotedly walking in the footsteps of the Master.

He wished to stay in the Holy Land to convert the Muslims, but the more prudent Franciscan keepers of the Holy Places ordered him out.  This dream shattered, he returned to his native Spain in order to find Christ, not in the romantic notion of converting the world, or living in the land trod so long ago by Jesus, but in the mundane events of daily life in his own country.