One tireless Jesuit keeps alive a pilgrim path for St. Ignatius in Spain
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.
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