Carpe Diem #1127 Penitence

My Response to Carpe Diem #1127 - Road to Santiago - Penitence. 

 I will continue telling a little of the story that Chevrefeuille is teaching us, so you may understand what the tanka I will write below is all about.

Creating a picture about what is happening on the “Road to Santiago”.

 Why is this post called Penitence?

This is a story that was told by an old man Paulo and Petrus met along the road.

Many centuries ago, a princess who was walking the Road to Santiago, Felicia of Aquitaine, decided, on her way back to Compostela, to give up everything and live here. 

She was love itself, because she divided all of her wealth among the poor people of the region and began to care for the sick.’

‘Her brother, Duke Guillermo, was sent by their father to bring her home. 

But Felicia refused to go. 

In desperation, the duke fatally stabbed her there in that small church.

‘When he came to his senses and realized what he had done, the duke went to Rome to ask the pope’s forgiveness. 

As penitence, the pope ordered him to walk to Compostela. 

Then a curious thing happened: on his way back, when he arrived here, he had the same impulse as his sister, and he stayed on, living in that little church that his sister had built, 

caring for the poor until the last days of his long life.’ [...] (Source: The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho)

Photo Credit - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_de_Santiago

So you see why this post is called Penitence - it means “affected by sense of guilt”, now to write my tanka.

strange word penitence

meaning feeling sense of guilt

road to santiago

retreat for spiritual growth

full of unconditional love