Word: compostela
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...original invitation to visit one N.P.A. unit was canceled due to "bad weather"-rebel code for increased enemy activity. Instead, we travel north along a half-finished highway through Compostela Valley, another guerrilla stronghold, where troops assigned to Arroyo's security detail had been injured in an N.P.A. ambush in July...
...altarpieces by the most esteemed and expensive artists of the 13th century, and acquire the rich collection of chalices, reliquaries and the like that plumped out its treasure house--in sum, to turn the place into the biggest pilgrimage center in the late medieval world, after Jerusalem, Rome and Compostela...
Lodge rescues his story by taking a daring chance. Recalling a teenage romance with a pure Irish Catholic girl named Maureen, Tubby resolves to track her down. He finds her struggling along the pilgrimage road toward the famous Spanish shrine of Santiago de Compostela. In the 40 intervening years, she has married and had children, including a beloved son who was recently killed while doing relief work in Angola. Maureen is still a simple, good person. Through her, Tubby recovers his essential decency--plus a healthy knee and sexual potency. By subtle shifts in tone, Lodge has grafted a hackneyed...
...delinquent!" yelled demonstrators. COLUMBUS MURDERED A CONTINENT read one of the placards. Last July a group of protesters dressed as South American Indians appeared unannounced in Spain, wearing loincloths, their faces and bodies painted. The invaders peacefully entered the shrine of the nation's patron saint at Santiago de Compostela. They left flowers and other offerings and a message to ask "forgiveness for those who used his name to conquer, murder and destroy peoples...
...Germans seem so hungry and pushy, and why do the Japanese lose their politeness when they leave their country? Why do the Soviets practice so much birth control and the South Americans so little? Why did so few people survive the 11th century pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela in Spain...