You may have heard about the awful accident in Santiago today. It occurred 4km from the railway station in Santiago, a station I know quite well.
Please pray for the people involved in this accident,the dead, the victims, the injured, the locals who helped straight away, the emergency workers.
Today (this evening) is the annual feast day of St James...Sant Yago... and the city is packed with pilgrims arriving especially for the festivities.. Many pilgrims time their walks to arrive in time for this feast day.
This train line is just an ordinary line - very similar to our lines - but for the fast trains.
This could have be any number of my pilgrim friends - just ordinary folks who are traveling to Santiago just like I did.
It just serves to remind me how important it is that we live each day to it's fullest and that we need to expect the unexpected.
http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/least-77-killed-over-100-injured-in-spanish-train-disaster-5518613
Please pray for the people involved in this accident,the dead, the victims, the injured, the locals who helped straight away, the emergency workers.
Today (this evening) is the annual feast day of St James...Sant Yago... and the city is packed with pilgrims arriving especially for the festivities.. Many pilgrims time their walks to arrive in time for this feast day.
This train line is just an ordinary line - very similar to our lines - but for the fast trains.
This could have be any number of my pilgrim friends - just ordinary folks who are traveling to Santiago just like I did.
It just serves to remind me how important it is that we live each day to it's fullest and that we need to expect the unexpected.
http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/least-77-killed-over-100-injured-in-spanish-train-disaster-5518613
This is tragic, and at the time of the Feast of St James with many more people than usual around. Thanks for all you have shared about your trip Tim, not just the personal journey stuff but the details about the pilgrimage itself. Santiago is obviously such a very special place especially for people like you who have been there and it will always have a place in the hearts of Christians.
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