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If You Stand Here: A Pilgrim’s Tour of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela

Author	Anne Born

If You Stand Here: A Pilgrim’s Tour of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela

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IF YOU STAND HERE…Pilgrims have been coming from all over the world to Spain for over 12 centuries to venerate the remains of the Apostle St. James the Greater and his two followers, Atanasio and Teodoro. The relics are housed in the crypt of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. It is the largest Romanesque cathedral in Spain. This book will not focus on the exact size of the building or all the dates of all the various building programs. It will place you on the very spot in the Cathedral where something marvelous happened in the history of this extraordinary space. It will invite you to imagine the new archbishop saying Mass for the first time, the music director playing new music at the organ, or a local poet who stops in one late afternoon to say some prayers. If you stand here, you will be standing…•where the Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon watched the Botafumeiro swing in 1499, •where the Italian prince, Cosimo de Medici III entered the Cathedral in 1669, •where the poet Federico García Lorca visited with his classmates from the University of Granada in 1916, •where American writer Edith Wharton gazed at the Pórtico de la Gloria sculpture at sunset in 1925, or where the archbishop ran for his life when an angry mob set fire to the Cathedral roof in 1117. Each of these events still reverberates in the air in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela – and all you have to do to experience it is to stand here. Look for the app COMING SOON in the App Store!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Anne Born is an award-winning, New York and Michigan-based writer who has been writing stories and poetry since childhood. She is the author of “Buen Camino! Tips from an American Pilgrim.” Her short essay on the call to the Camino is included in “It’s About Time,” by Johnnie Walker (Redemptorist Pastoral Publications, 2019). Anne holds a Master’s degree in Art History from the University of Chicago. She is also a photographer, specializing in photos of the Way of St. James in Spain, the Camino de Santiago. She has been a featured performer in several New York venues with Inspired Word NYC and at the New York Transit Museum. Follow Anne Born on Twitter, Redbubble, and Instagram @nilesite.

Anne Born

Anne Born is an award-winning, New York-based writer who has been writing stories and poetry since childhood. She blogs on The Backpack Press and Tumbleweed Pilgrim and her writing focuses on family and life in a big city after growing up in a small one. She is the author of "A Marshmallow on the Bus," "Prayer Beads on the Train," "Waiting on a Platform," "Turnstiles," and "Local Color," and "Buen Camino! Tips from an American Pilgrim." (The Backpack Press, December, 2017, now updated for 2020). Her short essay on the call to the Camino is included in "It's About Time," by Johnnie Walker (Redemptorist Pastoral Publications, 2019).

Her newest book, "If You Stand Here" will be out on Kindle shortly! It is a tour of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela for pilgrims. It focuses not on the dimensions of the building or all the various architectural programs, but on the people who have visited the Cathedral over the past 12 centuries.

She a contributor to the 2015 anthology, "Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox," edited by Joanne Bamberger. Anne's essay on her cousin's collection of Nancy Drew novels was published in the Silver Birch Press "Nancy Drew Anthology" (2016). She is also curator of the Late Orphan Project and a former contributor to The Broad Side.

Anne is also a photographer, specializing in photos of churches, cemeteries, and the Way of St. James in Spain, the Camino de Santiago.

Anne's work has been published in the Newtown Literary Journal and in "Me, as a Child," "All About My Name," and "My Prized Possession," Poetry & Prose Series published by Silver Birch Press. Her poetry has been featured in New York at Boundless Tales, Word Up Community Bookstore, and the Queens Council on the Arts. She has been a featured performer in several venues with Inspired Word NYC, at the New York Transit Museum, on Queens Public TV in "The World of Arts," and with the International Women Artists' Salon on Salon Radio.

Anne divides her time between New York and Spain. Follow Anne Born and The Late Orphan Project at The Backpack Press, and on Twitter, Redbubble, and Instagram @nilesite.

September 2016 - These Winter Months: The Late Orphan Project Anthology, edited by Anne Born, The Backpack Press. Winner (Anthologies), The Great Midwest Book Festival 2016.

April 2017 - These Summer Months: Stories from The Late Orphan Project, edited by Anne Born, The Backpack Press. Finalist (Anthologies: Non-Fiction), International Book Awards 2017.