In search of St Kevin
Eric Clayton is an author, (see photo right retreat giver and Deputy Director of Communications for the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the USA. He was in Ireland recently giving workshops and retreats in both Manresa spirituality centre Dublin, and the Jesuit Spirituality Centre in Belfast. In the latter he hosted a workshop entitled ’Jesuits & Jedi: What Star Wars Teaches Us About Our Spiritual Journeys’ »
Whilst here, Eric had a journey of his own in mind, which concerned his now deceased spiritual mentor, a statue, St Kevin of Glendalough, and a blackbird.
So Eric set of on his personal pilgrimage in the company of veteran Irish pilgrim Brendan McManus SJ, author of the best selling book Redemption Road: Grieving Along the Camino » Listen to their podcast above to solve the riddle of the statue, the saint, the mentor and the blackbird.
