Camino Photo of the Day: Eunate Interior

The interior of the Iglesia de Santa María de Eunate is lit by sunlight shining through alabaster windows. Apologies for the poor quality of the photo. Someday I pledge to get a better one! The inside might not look like much, but here’s what I wrote in my journal that day:

The rough pews faced a plain altar, and a charmingly primitive carving of Our Lady enthroned as a queen, with the infant Jesus on her lap. Both wore crowns. Mary’s head was much too large for her body. As I prayed there, I wept. This is a holy place. None of our party were unmoved, even the non-Catholics among us.

I remarked a little later that “this had been worth the entire trip to Spain”.

Ali, an atheist, said to me as we left that the world would be a better place if more people just went and sat quietly in a church now and again.

Date: 04 April 2013
Place: Eunate (Navarra, Spain)

Map! (which we are currently not on – we are near to the highway crossing to the left of Obanos and up from Muruzábal)