Happy Feast of San Juan el Bautista! We left Villadangos
Del Páramo after a nice breakfast, and 10 hours later (with 2 considerable
breaks) are sitting overlooking the Plaza
Mayor in Astorga in our Hotel Astur Plaza balcony! God is good!
Our first “break” was the wonderful Mass and
procession in the town of Hospital de
Órbigo!
Everyone at Mass (in the Church of San Juan) was told to join the
procession in Thanksgiving to God for all we have—our health, our senses, our
ability to walk, etc. And everyone
joined in! There were 7 priests and one
server, and they carried the Monstrance under a little, collapsible baldacchino! A large band followed, and ladies carrying
banners—and, of course, all of us!
An hour after we
left there, we stopped around 2) at an albergue where 2 Italian young men made
us a delicious plate of pasta with cheese, wine and bread (and optional dried
hot peppers).
After 7:00 p.m.,
we arrived in Astorga…Alleluia,
Praise the Lord! We had a Menu del Peregrino and retired,
P.T.L.!
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