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![]() Today, Egan says, 200 million people worldwide take some sort of pilgrimage each year. ![]() The Via Francigena took him from England, through France and Switzerland, into Italy.Īs Egan notes in his book, pilgrimages have become hugely popular again after falling by the wayside during the Protestant Reformation. In his newest book, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith (Viking), Egan writes of his 1,000-mile journey on one of Christianity’s oldest pilgrimage routes. ![]() For him, the way forward was a pilgrimage: the Via Francigena. ![]() It was “time to force the issue, to decide what I believe or admit what I don’t,” he says. Raised in a large, devout, progressive Irish Catholic family in Washington State, the bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times had let the faith of his upbringing lapse. ![]()
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