{"id":61976,"date":"2013-04-28T12:57:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T19:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/royal-monastery-of-samos\/"},"modified":"2015-06-11T11:01:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T18:01:08","slug":"royal-monastery-of-samos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/royal-monastery-of-samos\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Monastery of Samos"},"content":{"rendered":"

26 April<\/p>\n

We walked through the Galician mists today, to the magnificent monastery of Samos.<\/p>\n

While we were enjoying our second breakfast, who should come ’round the corner but my NZ buddy Eamon! Lunched in Triacastela and convinced him to accompany us to Samos. He was not disappointed.<\/p>\n

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Galicia seems like home – almost a faerie-tale country – and the first view of Samos from the overlooking hill took my breath away. <\/p>\n

I toured the monastery with Eamon and Radek. In the evening, we all attended chanted vespers and Mass. A moving and uplifting experience, even if I understood more of the Latin than the Spanish.<\/p>\n

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26 April We walked through the Galician mists today, to the magnificent monastery of Samos. While we were enjoying our second breakfast, who should come ’round the corner but my NZ buddy Eamon! Lunched in Triacastela and convinced him to accompany us to Samos. He was not disappointed. Galicia seems like home – almost a faerie-tale country – and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camino","category-divine-office"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-g7C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":84004,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/one-year-ago-the-royal-monastery-of-samos\/","url_meta":{"origin":61976,"position":0},"title":"One Year Ago: the Royal Monastery of Samos","author":"Thom","date":"26 April 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"(from my journal) Royal Monastery of Samos 26 April 2013 Francine and I had a shorter walk today to Samos through beautiful Galician misty farmland and woods with Anja. 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