Brian B. Pinter joins a pilgrimage along a new route that traces St Ignatius Loyola’s journey through his native Spain “God has blessed Spain with a sense of enchantment, an abundance of passion, and a powerful, mystical eros. I’m reminded of Song of Solomon 8:6, ‘The flash of love is a flash of fire/A flame of Yahweh himself’. These people and their alluring country radiate this romantic energy. I think Ignatius felt this deep in his soul all his life. I understand how he came to find ‘God in all things’.” This was the final journal entry during my pilgrimage along the Camino Ignaciano, a new route mapped by the Spanish Jesuits which traces the 650 kilometres Ignatius walked in 1522 from Loyola, in Spain’s northern Basque country, to