The tireless Jesuit keeping Spain’s St. Ignatius pilgrimage alive

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Iriberri is the do-it-all Jesuit who designed the pilgrimage route to honor the founder of the Society of Jesus and for over a decade has almost single-handedly kept it alive. Walking the nearly 600-km (370-mile) Camino Ignaciano can take a month, broken into 27 stages by Iriberri. To enhance the pilgrim experience, Iriberri wrote a guidebook for the Camino Ignaciano. Pilgrim Dawn Kelly, a retired teacher from Houston, says the route is “very specific” for those interested in Ignatius and the Jesuit tradition. Fortunately for the Camino Ignaciano, Iriberri is going strong even at retirement age.