Pilgrim's Italy: A Travel Guide to the Saints, The

Explore the spiritual side of Italy with this book as your comprehensive guide. Whether you are a novice or a well-traveled pilgrim, this unique guidebook offers all that is needed to visit profound pilgrimage sites, meditate on the lives of the saints, and experience their blessings. The authors combine inspiring biographies of dozens of saints with practical tourist information and simple meditation techniques for people of all faiths.

You will visit St. Francis of Assisi, St. Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio), St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Rita of Cascia, St. Anthony of Padua, St. Catherine of Siena and many more saintly treasures. Put on your walking shoes and discover two of Italy’s revived ancient pilgrimage routes: The Via Francigena and the Cammino di Francesco. Either staying at home or choosing to travel, you will experience the heart and soul of Italy with the saints as your guides.

“The saints’ presence is very much alive, today, at these shrines. James and Colleen Heater show us how truly to receive the saints’ blessings, by experiencing for ourselves their living presence.”

—Swami Kriyananda, author of Paramhansa Yogananda: A Biography with Personal Reflections and Reminiscences

“Pilgrims are not tourists. They have come, quietly and humbly, to seek the holy and enter more deeply into God’s Blessedness. The Heaters have found this stillness for themselves and here set out to share its essentials with men and women who earnestly seek God.”

—Sister Wendy Beckett, author and host of the PBS program The Saints with Sister Wendy