Pilgrimage - The Road Through the Alps S07E03
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00:00On the medieval pathways of the majestic Austrian and Swiss Alps.
00:07Wow, look at that.
00:09Seven celebrities are making an epic pilgrimage.
00:13Look at this sign.
00:14Ah!
00:15Pilger Herberger.
00:16Pilger Herberger.
00:17Pilgrimage Hostel.
00:19Among them, a pilgrim with mixed heritage.
00:22My father was born into a Jewish family,
00:25but I'm told I was christened, obviously I can't remember.
00:28A Muslim who's doing things her own way.
00:30I have been through periods of my life where I didn't lose faith, I gave it up.
00:36And a practicing Catholic.
00:38I've been saying, show me a sign, just let me know you're there, let me know you're there.
00:42And funny enough, I'm now going on a pilgrimage.
00:46That is insane, isn't it?
00:49Do you want to look at that view, Helen?
00:51Not really, thanks.
00:53Their final destination is Einseelden Abbey, with its revered 15th century Black Madonna,
00:59which attracts almost a million pilgrims and visitors every year.
01:04I wasn't expecting to have my breath taken away.
01:08For 12 days and over 300 kilometers.
01:12We are twice as high as Mount Snowden.
01:14Wow.
01:15There'll be challenges.
01:17Fingers crossed, none of us die and we all make it.
01:20Yeah.
01:21Realizations.
01:22I feel like I'm plugged into something really special.
01:26You're someone who makes me believe more.
01:28And surprises.
01:29I ain't going over a spider.
01:31With this stroke, you're becoming our brother.
01:35I never sit down with a mate and say, okay, let's talk about faith.
01:39We have killed, we have maimed, we've done terrible things to one another.
01:43But will they embrace this journey of a lifetime?
01:47I wonder how far we are from the border.
01:51We've not got too long left.
01:53How long?
01:54You don't want to know.
01:56Tucked away in the northeast of Switzerland, in the rolling foothills of the Alpstein Massif,
02:07is the region of Appenzeller, where old customs and traditions are still part of everyday life.
02:14Ah, Switzerland.
02:16Yes.
02:17Mountains.
02:18Fresh Swiss air.
02:21The group spent the night in the small town of Appenzeller.
02:25This is gorgeous, isn't it?
02:28What are the Swiss known for?
02:29What's their thing?
02:30Cheese and watches.
02:31And being very known about the watches.
02:33Functional, being on time, being neutral.
02:36The pilgrims are nine days into their journey, and are now making their way to Urnesh,
02:4313 kilometres away, a town known for its farming heritage.
02:47You know that thing when you start out a little bit fast?
02:51You might have to overtake me.
02:53We're cresting the hill now.
02:55This is the yoga breathing, restyled for pilgrim work.
03:00The group started their 300km pilgrimage in Austria eight days ago.
03:09They travelled west on foot and by bus, and crossed the Alberg Massif,
03:14before heading to the border with Switzerland.
03:17From here, the ancient Catholic Camino will wind through the foothills of the Swiss Alps,
03:23before reaching Rappersville on Lake Zurich.
03:27A push-up to the Etzel Pass will bring them to their journey's end,
03:31Einseelden Abbey, a celebrated pilgrim destination with a remarkable history
03:37that goes back over a thousand years.
03:47The group is following the Lush Camino,
03:49and after three kilometres, Jay McGuinness spots something a little different.
03:54Looks like we have an opportunity to barf us, Mike.
03:58Ooh!
03:59Barefoot walking is a chance for pilgrims and hikers
04:02to connect with the textures and sensations of nature.
04:06If you're feeling up for it, we can take off our shoes and socks
04:09and wade quite a distance down there.
04:11Will you walk in the water?
04:12That's it.
04:13That looks filthy.
04:14Yeah.
04:15And I do not see how it's going to lead me to enlightenment.
04:19Steph Reid is worried about her prosthetic.
04:22Yeah, I don't think I can get my artificial foot wet.
04:25It'll get damaged if it gets wet.
04:26Ooh!
04:27Oh!
04:28Is it cold?
04:29It's quite squelchy.
04:33Oh, my days!
04:34The squelch.
04:35Urgh!
04:36That's like the bottom of a plug hole in a sink.
04:40Ooh!
04:41Squelch!
04:42Oh!
04:43There's something bubbling!
04:44I'm feeling quite overwhelmed by fear now, Harry,
04:47that there's a creature in here.
04:49I think you should go as our youngest, healthiest member.
04:52Go on.
04:53Go on, man.
04:54Go on, man.
04:55Oh, go on, yeah.
04:56Death would say go on.
04:57Winnie.
04:58I've never been so happy at opting out.
05:01Nellifer, how are you doing?
05:03Surviving, my darling.
05:04Surviving.
05:05All my days now.
05:06There's a spider there.
05:07There's a spider?
05:08Okay.
05:09You're done.
05:10You're done.
05:11What happened?
05:12You came short.
05:13I'm going over a spider.
05:14Where's the spider?
05:15Come on.
05:16Harry, is it gone?
05:17Seriously?
05:18I'm not disqualified.
05:19No, I pretty much made it.
05:20You're at the end.
05:21Okay.
05:22Jay comes over the finish line.
05:24Go, Jay.
05:25And now, Jeff, the mud has been washed off as his sins have been cleansed from his soul.
05:32Nellifer.
05:33Woo!
05:34And once more unto the breach, Harry.
05:38Yay!
05:39Woo!
05:40My pants are falling down.
05:42I'm a mess right now.
05:43This pilgrimage is like taking it out of me, you know?
05:47Now they're out of the ditch.
05:49Oh!
05:50And the water isn't so deep.
05:52Steph's keen to join in.
05:54But there's a reason Helen Lederer is keeping her boots on.
05:59Is it cold?
06:00Do you know what?
06:01It's actually quite satisfying.
06:02Is it?
06:03Do you not fancy it, Helen?
06:04No.
06:05You don't want to get the bunion out?
06:06No!
06:07Try about my bunion.
06:08That's what it's all about.
06:09Free the bunion.
06:10Free it.
06:11It's quite soothing.
06:12Soothing?
06:13Yeah.
06:14For Harry Clark, it's a taste of freedom.
06:16My mum would not let me do this in a million years.
06:19I think you need to get out more, Harry.
06:24Harry got told.
06:25Yeah, literally, you know?
06:27Steph, yeah, is a little bully, you know that.
06:31I think this is the end of the barefoot walk, guys.
06:33I might need to borrow your shoulder, actually.
06:35Yep.
06:36I'm just trying to think, how am I going to do this?
06:37Shall I take your sticks?
06:38If I can give you that...
06:39Is there anywhere we can wash our feet?
06:41Let me just have a think.
06:42I wouldn't say it's clean, but it'll do.
06:45It'll do.
06:47Deliso, can you pass me my shoe?
06:48Left or right?
06:49Left, please.
06:50Left?
06:51Yep.
06:52I'm just here as a support.
06:53We're like children.
06:54As ever.
06:55I'm not going to feel bad about not doing it.
06:57Sorry.
06:58We're just...
06:59Just here as a support, really.
07:00Am I being helpful?
07:01I'm so sorry.
07:02No.
07:03We're in.
07:04We're balanced.
07:05Have you ever put socks on a grown woman?
07:06On a grown woman, this is the first time.
07:08There we go.
07:09Thank you very much.
07:10Amazing.
07:11OK.
07:12Done.
07:13Let's go this way.
07:14Lead the way.
07:15I think the best part was you dressing my feet at the end of it.
07:20You get close in very surprising ways upon pilgrim.
07:25I know.
07:26Today, the pilgrim's last stop on their Camino is Ornash.
07:36In spring, farmers take their cattle to higher alpine pastures and bring them back down to
07:41the town in autumn, when they have a cattle show to select the best breeds.
07:46I mean, the whole town's out.
07:48Yeah.
07:49Ooh, what a loud blue.
07:52In the enclosure, 30 local farmers have each shown 17 of their finest cows.
07:59For Deliso Chaponda and Nalifah Hedayat, it's a first.
08:05Have you ever seen anything like this before, Deliso?
08:08I've never seen anything like this.
08:10I mean, I've been to markets where there are lots of animals, but this is much grander.
08:15And there's so much excitement.
08:17People have come round to see it.
08:18This feels very unique.
08:20I'm trying to work out the ones with the Peter Pan hats on.
08:23Yeah.
08:24Are they the same as the ones with the red jackets?
08:26What's the difference?
08:27They're wearing Appenzell's centuries-old traditional costumes.
08:31Farmers and herdsmen in red jackets and farmhands in the green hats.
08:38Some movement.
08:39The cows are coming.
08:40Ooh!
08:41Look at the bell!
08:42The size of the bell!
08:44Oh, my lord!
08:45With the competition over, the farmers start leading their cows home,
08:50some of them traditionally decorated with bells and garlands.
08:55Look at that one's nutsack.
08:56Yes, the bottom nutsack, they're udders.
08:58It needs to be milked.
08:59Look how veiny they are.
09:00They look like they're about to pot, don't they?
09:02I didn't actually know cows could move that fast.
09:04Yeah, look at them go!
09:06What makes a cow the best?
09:07Best looking, biggest udders.
09:09The best of every aspect.
09:10The tastiest milk.
09:12Oh, they're singing as well.
09:15They're calling the cows.
09:16Look, with the cigar!
09:17The farmer with the cigar.
09:18That's a power move right there.
09:21Woo!
09:22You know, in South Africa, if I wanted to marry you, I would give you lobola, which is like cows.
09:33So how many cows would I be worth?
09:35I think you'd probably get like 70 cows.
09:3870?
09:39A lot of cows.
09:40Is that good?
09:41You're a foreigner, you're intelligent, you've got a lot of, yeah, you're getting 70 cows.
09:44There's an app which helps you calculate.
09:46There's an app to see how many cows.
09:48That's, that's, of course.
09:53These are all females, right?
09:54Yeah.
09:55So a male cow is a bull, that's math.
09:58I never knew there weren't male cows.
10:00This is an education for Harry Clarke.
10:03This whole pilgrimage being an education for me, I'll tell you that for a fact.
10:06As the day comes to a close, the pilgrims head to their overnight accommodation, a restored Appenzull farmhouse.
10:19Look at this pretty place.
10:22Did anyone else find that cow festival a really moving experience?
10:27Harry.
10:28It's been raining for much of the day.
10:31Oh, somewhere not wet.
10:33Did we know how many bedrooms?
10:36We don't.
10:37Shall we go up?
10:38Let's go, let's have a little look.
10:39Oh my gosh.
10:40Oh, wow.
10:41Absolutely lovely.
10:45Yeah, this is vibes-y, man.
10:47Oh, I could move in.
10:49This is beautiful.
10:52Roomies.
10:53I know, our first time.
10:54It's my first time.
10:56I'm actually really excited about this and we've got a, we've got a good room.
11:00Oh, I haven't even...
11:01Oh, this is good.
11:03Oh, this is good.
11:10The pilgrims are cooking for themselves tonight and Geoff and Nellifer have taken charge.
11:16What even is this green thing?
11:18That's a courgette.
11:19I have never eaten a courgette in my life.
11:22Harry's a stranger to the kitchen.
11:24Oh, man.
11:25This chef and stuff's difficult, man.
11:26Well done, Harry.
11:27Why is that making me cry?
11:28If you cut any onion, it will make you cry, really.
11:29Has anyone got a pair of goggles?
11:30And he's particular about what he eats.
11:31Two, four, six, eight, ten.
11:32I've got ten nuggets.
11:33Get your tray out for your nuggets.
11:34Is that oven on, yeah?
11:35We're nearly done now.
11:36So we've all got glasses of water and wine glasses.
11:38I think we're ready to eat.
11:39Right, guys.
11:40This is the chicken one.
11:41Wow.
11:42That would be awesome.
11:43That would be awesome.
11:44I would love that.
11:45But Harry's missing because he's sorting his nuggets out.
11:46That's what I'm saying.
11:47I'm going to try out for your nuggets.
11:48Is that oven on, yeah?
11:49We're nearly done now.
11:50So we've all got glasses of water and wine glasses.
11:51I think we're ready to eat.
11:52Right, guys, this is the chicken one.
11:54Wow.
11:55That is the veggie one.
11:59Do you think because you're the fantastic chefs, we should do a little grace or whatever the
12:04word is that you...
12:05Oh, wow.
12:06Maybe, what do you think?
12:07Definitely the two grace.
12:08I would love that.
12:09But Harry's missing because he's sorting his nuggets out.
12:12It would be awesome if you let us, actually.
12:14Me?
12:15Yeah, it would be great.
12:16Is everyone going to clap?
12:18My cheesy nuggets.
12:19Steph is going to do a special thing.
12:22Everyone ready?
12:23It's super cheesy, but can we hold hands already?
12:25Only because, you know, it's a nice shared move.
12:27I just want to hold my hand.
12:28Yeah, that's it.
12:29Steph.
12:30Dearest Lord, thank you for this food.
12:32Thank you for these friends.
12:34And we ask that you bless this food into and out of our bodies.
12:37Amen.
12:38Amen.
12:39Bon appétit, everyone.
12:40I know.
12:41In and out of the body.
12:42People always miss the out of the body, and I think it's equally important.
12:44So, in and out of the body.
12:46In and out, yes.
12:47Love it.
12:48It tastes very good.
12:50Mmm.
12:51This is so delicious.
12:52Yes.
12:53A little check-in.
12:54How do you feel that your faith or your relationship with that part of your life, has it changed?
13:00Or has everyone...
13:01Just quickly, does anyone want a chicken nugget before I...
13:03LAUGHTER
13:04We'll get back to the actual question.
13:06I'm good, I'm good.
13:07That's what I'm saying.
13:08They're really good.
13:09I'm going to eat them all.
13:10Fair one.
13:11I feel like my faith has expanded.
13:13I've prayed for all of you at different parts of the journey.
13:16I hope that's not weird for you guys.
13:17Yeah, that's lovely.
13:18It is weird, but it's lovely.
13:19LAUGHTER
13:20So, for me, I feel like, before I started the pilgrimage, there was a distance between
13:27me and my faith, quite a lot of anger, and honestly, mistrust.
13:33Suspicion.
13:34As I'm sitting here today, I have started to really interrogate that and work on that,
13:40and ask honestly, what does being a Muslim mean to me?
13:45I would not be talking about faith if there was a single answer.
13:48Right.
13:49It would be done.
13:50Yeah.
13:51Thank you for saying that, because you are our head girl of faith.
13:54You know, the prefect of faith, because you are so sure, which is inspirational.
13:59So, thank you for allowing that.
14:02Mm.
14:03Geoff, do you feel like anything's changed in you?
14:06How are you feeling as a pilgrim?
14:08So, I think my journey is not a religious one.
14:10It's maybe not necessarily a spiritual one.
14:12I can see the benefit of taking time out of our lives to come and do something that you
14:19might even consider selfish.
14:20I mean, maybe we'd refer to it now as pilgrimage time, where you have your own inner sort of
14:25pilgrimage, bit of fresh air, bit of conversation.
14:29Do you think that you will benefit from this experience and be stronger somehow for other
14:36people and yourself?
14:37Yeah, that's without doubt.
14:40I think the most amazing thing about my pilgrimage so far is that I'm surrounded by
14:44people who, in my mind, is, like, at that level above me.
14:48Like, I don't need anyone to say, oh, no, no, we're not, no, we're not.
14:51Yeah, you are.
14:52Basically, shut up.
14:53Yeah, you are.
14:54And, like, for me, I feel like now, already, I'm such a better person and I can't wait to
14:58get home to be that person.
14:59You have been an absolute joy to pilgrim with.
15:01Truly.
15:02And I love your joy and I hope you never lose it.
15:05That's the love.
15:06Yeah.
15:07That is love.
15:08Yeah.
15:09Like, you give that as a gift to us, like, it's great.
15:10It's just wonderful.
15:11Joy.
15:12It's joy.
15:13God, probably.
15:14Well, cheers to the pilgrimage.
15:15Cheers, everyone.
15:16Cheers, all.
15:17We're about to go into our final push.
15:18Is it another four months or how long have we got?
15:21After dinner, the group starts getting ready for bed.
15:27Are you sure it's the shampoo you give me?
15:30My ears aren't going to fall out, is it?
15:32Traitor's traitor to get.
15:34I hope so, anyway, because I've been using that the whole time.
15:39I've wiped it all round my haul bags.
15:41Oh, you ain't, actually, have you?
15:44It was wonderful.
15:46Wonderful, wonderful dinner.
15:47Yeah, I agree.
15:48For me, it's about the human connections.
15:51I'm not someone who envelops themselves in nature.
15:54I'm not walking barefoot through a trough, right?
15:58That's not how the show is coming out of the shell.
16:03But having a chat at 11pm and laughing, that works for me.
16:09Yeah.
16:18It's morning and the pilgrims wake up to clear skies.
16:28Don't do a pilgrimage unless you're okay with being a little bit smelly.
16:33Do you feel like your vanity standards have lowered and will stay lowered at the end?
16:38I had no idea I could go this long.
16:40It's going to be a significant day, particularly for Helen.
16:46I'm quite excited, but also a bit apprehensive today, because we're going to go to two villages,
16:51which were the only villages where Jewish people were allowed to live in Switzerland.
16:57It's a bit wet, isn't it?
17:02It's nice.
17:05From the 13th century, for over 200 years, expulsions and pogroms against Jewish people in Switzerland
17:12resulted in their banishment in 1491.
17:18Most of the Jewish population fled, but it's known that by 1776, Lengnau and Endingen
17:28were two of the places in Switzerland that Jews were allowed to live.
17:32It's quite a pretty little village, isn't it?
17:35Welcome to Lengnau.
17:38Thanks for having us.
17:40Esther Geersberger is chair of an association set up to preserve the Jewish history of these villages.
17:46Helen?
17:47Jay.
17:48Jay.
17:49Nice to meet you.
17:50Nice meeting you all.
17:51It's great you're here, because it's for me a special occasion as well.
17:54Although I'm living in Zurich, my mother comes from Endingen, and I grew up very liberal.
18:00My mother is Jewish, but my father is a Christian, and I got married with a Catholic.
18:05There was a time when there were more Jews living in, especially in Endingen, than in Lengnau.
18:13They had their rights, but of course they didn't have all the rights.
18:17They could not own land, property.
18:20They could have only a few professions, and they were not allowed to live in the same house as Christians.
18:30But together, many Christians and Jews found a solution.
18:34They would live in the same building, but have two front doors.
18:38So they were cheating, and not only the Jews were cheating, also the Christians were cheating, because they got along very well.
18:45Now I'm taking you to a double door house.
18:49Wow.
18:50One part for Christians, one part for Jews.
18:53The same house, so two doors.
18:57Here is the wall separating the two parts.
19:03You could go in here, Christian part, and go in here, the Jewish part.
19:08One family lives up here, and the other one lives down here.
19:11They made it two houses.
19:13Symbolic.
19:14Exactly.
19:15This is made for a mezuzah.
19:19Tiny little written parts of the Torah, of the Jewish Bible, I'd say.
19:25And it marks every Jewish house.
19:31I like the idea of the Jewish people coming together with the Christians and just saying,
19:36look, we can live together despite what's going on elsewhere.
19:39But why Jewish people?
19:41That's what I don't get.
19:42It was anti-Semitism.
19:44Exactly.
19:45Like any sort of bigotry.
19:47You always need somebody who is guilty.
19:50And if you look different, and if you were not born here, you're the one who has to be the scapegoat.
19:56Yeah.
19:59We're learning something new every day.
20:01Always, Harry. Every day is a school day.
20:03Every day is a school day.
20:04It wasn't until the mid-19th century that international pressure was put on Switzerland
20:10to grant Jews equal rights and freedom of movement.
20:14There are three family Jewish names from Lengnau.
20:18Endingen, Bloch, Wieler and Guggenheim.
20:21Wow.
20:22There are a few others, but that's almost everybody.
20:25With their newfound freedom, many Swiss Jews emigrated to the US.
20:30Among them, the grandfather of Solomon Guggenheim, founder of the world-famous Guggenheim Museum in New York.
20:38But they never, never forget their origin.
20:42And they are buried in the cemetery here.
20:51Between the two villages is the Jewish cemetery, which they were allowed to create in 1750.
20:59It's still used today.
21:02How many people are buried here?
21:04About 2,700.
21:07So for yourself, you're Jewish and Christian.
21:10Yes.
21:11Would you be buried in a Jewish cemetery or a Christian cemetery?
21:14I struggled for a long time, because as long as my father lived, I didn't want to show too much my Jewishness.
21:24When he died, I became a member of the Jewish religious community in Zurich.
21:30So actually, yes, I want to be buried in a Jewish cemetery.
21:34OK.
21:39Shall we have a look around?
21:40Hmm.
21:44Some of these are completely illegible.
21:47I don't even know how old they'd be.
21:49The moss and the algae.
21:51Yeah, the moss just taking over.
21:55Hella, is there an afterlife in the Jewish faith?
21:58Do you know, I don't know about the afterlife.
22:01I don't think there's a heaven.
22:03Hmm.
22:05I should know, shouldn't I?
22:06No, no.
22:07Do you think that there is a place called heaven?
22:10Do you know, I used to think about this a lot as a new Christian, thinking like,
22:13I don't really want to go to heaven if we're just going to sit there and play harps.
22:17What do you think happens from a personal perspective when you die?
22:20I don't think this is the end, when we die. I think there will be something else. I think I will still be me, but in a different form.
22:29It's interesting how cautious I am in thinking like, I'm not going, when I die, I'm not going to a building that's white or something. I'm not going to go up there and be me.
22:38I think there will be a resurrection of such. I don't ever think I'm going to be an ethereal spirit floating. Like, I'm not going to exist without a body.
22:46To the extent where sometimes I think about, I wonder what coffee would be like in heaven. Because I think it's going to be great.
22:52Did you just say you were wondering what coffee was like in heaven?
22:55I do. I think it's going to be great.
22:57I just thought I misheard that. But what a thought.
23:00Only the best.
23:01Yes, good coffee.
23:03I can't say those are orthodox views, but that's what I think.
23:05Would you have beer in heaven?
23:06Oh, yeah.
23:07Okay, great.
23:08Jesus' first miracle was wine. I bet he makes awesome beer.
23:10Yeah, we could maybe relate to that.
23:12Yeah.
23:17You obviously live a mixed religious life. So do you go to church as a Christian as well as a synagogue as a Jewish person?
23:26Yes.
23:27I do both because my husband and I, we decided to raise our children not Catholic as my husband or not Jewish as me.
23:36But Protestant. A compromise.
23:40This may be a hard question. But you and your husband obviously have a different faith. So how would you go about, say, being buried together?
23:47Since there are more and more mixed marriages, also in Switzerland, they agree that you can be buried together. So this is now possible.
23:59I've been over to Normandy a few times, you know, France, because I was actually in the army. So when you walk through the cemeteries, you have the Jewish people and the Christians being buried next to each other. That's sort of going to be like the same thing. You and your husband and family will be able to lay rested next to each other, which is good.
24:16Yes.
24:17And it seems like the more modern we're getting, the more accepting religions becoming of each other.
24:21Exactly.
24:26In Endingham, Esther takes Helen and Steph to the balcony in the synagogue where the women would sit.
24:32So the women come all the way up here.
24:35Yes.
24:36On a Friday, on a Saturday.
24:38But they are closer to God, you know.
24:40Yes.
24:41Excellent point.
24:42Steph, you like that.
24:46They can't see much if they're further back, can they?
24:49What do you think?
24:50No.
24:51It's quite hard to see.
24:52And you see, that's why, so that men wouldn't see you.
24:55So the men must not get distracted by the women.
24:58Exactly.
24:59That's the idea.
25:00So as someone who feels quite liberal as a Jewish person, how do you feel about the gender roles and have things changed at all?
25:07Well, there are much more liberal Jews than used to be.
25:13But on the other hand, I do respect tradition.
25:17I realise how important history and stories are for, you know, for the Jews, being spread all over the world for not very positive reasons.
25:36Meeting Esther has prompted Helen to share what she's discovered about members of her own family who died during the war.
25:42I was taken to Auschwitz, which I wouldn't normally...
25:45I would never go to Auschwitz.
25:46Exactly.
25:47Never.
25:48That's it.
25:49That was like standing on ghosts and it stays with me.
25:52But that experience of connection, the pain, really, of knowing firsthand your own family who were killed.
26:01But then to over-claim it, to over-personalise it when you're not central to it or directly connected is so wrong.
26:09So I have a shame that I'm not owning it.
26:11I just know I connect and I feel so sad when I allow myself to think of relatives in, you know, Therese and Staff in Auschwitz.
26:22I think knowing that you lost quite a few members of your family in the concentration camps makes you more vulnerable.
26:32It touches me.
26:33It touches me, but then my worry is that I'm over-claiming something.
26:38That's what I mean with culture or with roots, you know?
26:43I mean, coming back to your roots and thinking about from where did I come?
26:49I say I'm not a Jew and so I have avoided it until the pilgrimage.
26:56I haven't really talked about it.
26:58I think asking yourself, can I find an answer, is already going far.
27:05Yes.
27:06The city of Rappersville, on the shores of Lake Zurich, has been part of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, or Jakobsweg, since the Middle Ages.
27:26The group arrived late last night at the Pilgrim hostel in the Old Town, and they all slept in the communal bunk room.
27:39Morning.
27:41It was a cacophony of snorers and murmurers and it was just, it was crazy.
27:48Jeff!
27:49What?
27:55Do you want me to make some breakfast?
27:56Yes, please.
27:57The most I can make you is a bit toast.
28:00The girls didn't have a particularly good night and have escaped to the kitchen.
28:05I'm a little bit obsessed with my coffee, so if I have the opportunity, I pack my own beans and they were worth the space in my ruck's egg.
28:11It's not bothering you, is it?
28:13Do you not sleep well?
28:15Um, probably the worst night's sleep, yeah.
28:18Was this the 2am wake up followed by the night of snoring and farting?
28:22Yeah, I was downwind.
28:24I made a bad bed choice.
28:26I lost half of the consequences.
28:33It's a lot of minks and toast.
28:36Oh, it's there.
28:37What's up?
28:38No problem with me.
28:43We should have a girls room.
28:44Always a problem.
28:45That's what we should do.
28:46It's ridiculous.
28:47This is actually really nice.
28:51Like, too nice.
28:53Can you smell that?
28:55It's fresh air.
29:04No one's made eggs yet, that's the problem.
29:07No one's made eggs yet.
29:08No one's made eggs yet.
29:11From Rappersville, today the group will follow the Camino over Lake Zurich's famous Pilgrim Bridge, before climbing to the top of the Etzel Pass and St Meinrad's Chapel.
29:22Then tomorrow, they'll head to their final destination, Einseelden Abbey.
29:28With only two days left on their pilgrimage, by nine o'clock, the group are ready to get back on the path.
29:36Oh, it's raining.
29:37Oh, wow.
29:38Here we are.
29:39Finally, almost.
29:40This is the first morning I've actually thought about the end.
29:44The end?
29:45Yeah.
29:46Like, we're not that far.
29:47I know.
29:48I don't really want to think about it, to be fair.
29:49Are you excited to be done?
29:50Kind of and kind of not, I guess.
29:51What about you?
29:52Um, I worry about how special it is and how much I'll miss it, and yet I also want my own bed, so.
29:56Yeah, I know.
29:59I'm glad the weather didn't bother showing up today.
30:01Oh, it's miserable.
30:02I could do heat and steep over any terrain in the West.
30:08There's no such thing as bad weather.
30:10What?
30:11Just bad clothing.
30:12Who told you this?
30:13They deceived you.
30:15This is bad weather.
30:18Come find that bridge, shall we?
30:19The bridge.
30:20We must find the bridge.
30:23The Pilgrim Bridge has been leading the faithful across Lake Zurich for centuries.
30:29Is that the wooden bridge?
30:31Yes, that's it.
30:32I think this is the bridge.
30:33It's more firm than I expected.
30:35I'm glad.
30:36I was afraid of something like a rope bridge.
30:38Yeah.
30:39When it was made, there was no handrail.
30:41I can't imagine that.
30:42Can you imagine?
30:43Like, so it didn't used to have rails.
30:44Like, it's pretty windy today.
30:45Are you ready?
30:46Okay.
30:47Let's do it.
30:48Coming.
30:49Flippery, though.
30:50Oh, this is quite a moment.
30:52Yeah.
30:53Isn't it?
30:54Well, do you reckon this is the wood from 600 years ago now?
30:57Is it?
30:58I hope not.
30:59When was this built?
31:00It was modernised 2001.
31:01Oh.
31:02To be made safe.
31:03But back in the day, it was really treacherous.
31:05What's the point of it?
31:06Well, otherwise, you'd have to swim.
31:08But I reckon you could swim it.
31:10Don't know about that.
31:11Jay, have you got any more facts about this bridge?
31:14Well, it crosses the narrowest part of Lake Zurich.
31:17Yes.
31:18This bridge was used by pilgrims back in the day, in medieval times, to get to Unseilden Abbey.
31:23Probably shaved a few kilometres off their route, didn't it?
31:26Yeah.
31:27How beautiful would this be in summertime, though?
31:28Look at how clear the water is.
31:30In the sun, it would be magnificent.
31:32Yeah, it would.
31:33The pilgrims have to walk almost a kilometre to get to the other side.
31:40Wet and miserable, but it does look quite beautiful.
31:44In a misty sort of way.
31:47Yes.
31:48How are spirits?
31:50Quite high-ish.
31:52Can we all get closer together?
31:54Because I'm freezing.
31:55OK.
31:56Yeah, go on.
31:57Little group, cuddle.
31:58Yeah.
31:59And take the view in with everyone.
32:00Definitely warm you up.
32:01I mean, it's cold, but it's genuinely stunning.
32:04Yeah.
32:07Shall we crack on?
32:08Yeah.
32:09Can we stay interlinked or death on that?
32:10You're enjoying the...
32:11For the rest of the brotherhood and sisterhood.
32:17So this bridge is continuing.
32:19Yeah.
32:20It's full length.
32:21It's a long one.
32:22Yes.
32:23It's the longest bridge in Switzerland.
32:24Oh.
32:27We're getting towards the end.
32:28End of the bridge coming up.
32:29Left or right?
32:30Left or right?
32:31We did it.
32:32We're going right.
32:33We did it.
32:34Right it is.
32:35Here we go.
32:36From the shores of the lake, the pilgrims have a tough push ahead of them to the summit
32:41of the Edsel Pass and the chapel of St. Meinrad.
32:47Meinrad was the famed hermit monk whose life was the inspiration for Einzilden Abbey.
32:52I think that there's a possibility of a human being dissolving.
32:58Okay, everyone ready for cars?
33:00Following you, Steph.
33:01I think we're good.
33:02Everyone careful.
33:03The good news is, at least the trees will provide some coverage.
33:11Huh.
33:12All right.
33:13There was no need for that, was there?
33:14That was like mocking us.
33:16He was literally like, ha, fools, I'm warm in here.
33:21But imagine doing this like 500 years ago, barefoot and that.
33:24I really respect anyone that has done this.
33:28I don't feel physically tired, I feel mentally tired.
33:31Yeah.
33:32You have such complicated chats through the day, don't you?
33:35Yeah.
33:36Questions you really have to think about.
33:38Takes it out of you.
33:40We are actually going quite high in elevation again.
33:42Not as high.
33:43Am I?
33:44But still pretty high.
33:45What would they be running on at this point?
33:48Religious ecstasy?
33:51Devotion?
33:52Fervour?
33:53What do you think the draw is to be a monk?
33:55Like, would it ever appeal to you?
33:57Me?
33:58Yeah.
33:59No way.
34:00Why is that?
34:01Because I just believe my duty is to procreate.
34:03Is that the word?
34:04Yeah.
34:05Procreate lots and lots of mini Harrys.
34:06What about Harryettes?
34:07Harryettes.
34:08Yep.
34:10And spread the word of God that way.
34:12Okay.
34:13Why are you not a nun, Steph?
34:15Um.
34:16Good question.
34:17Yeah.
34:18I guess just never felt called to.
34:21I think there's lots of different ways to serve God.
34:24I feel like it's putting together all the different things.
34:27Yeah.
34:28It's like we learned how to go steep.
34:31Yeah.
34:32We learned how to go muddy.
34:33Now let's put them all together.
34:34Let's do it.
34:36Oh.
34:37I'm assuming we're still going up, right?
34:38See, this is the problem with letting you go first.
34:39She is a cold spring, isn't she?
34:40It is miserable today.
34:41The path is treacherous.
34:42It's slippery.
34:43It's raining.
34:44This is amazing.
34:45And I don't even care if it's raining and I'm freezing.
34:46I'm just, I'm just loving this.
34:48You good?
34:49I'm right behind you.
34:50I can hear.
34:52Roots are quite helpful as steps.
34:53Did you know, mad fact, trees and humans brains, it's both filled with 75% water.
34:58They were quite like trees.
34:59I didn't know that.
35:00I feel over 75% water right now.
35:01Yeah.
35:02Very muddy here.
35:03Okay.
35:04Oh, this is a fall bush.
35:05I'm just going where you're going.
35:06Ouch.
35:07Oh, sh.
35:08Oh, sh.
35:09Oh, sh.
35:10Oh, sh.
35:11Oh, sh.
35:12Oh, sh.
35:13Oh, sh.
35:14Oh, sh.
35:15Oh, sh.
35:16Oh, sh.
35:17Oh, sh.
35:18Oh, sh.
35:19Oh, sh.
35:20Oh, sh.
35:21Oh, sh.
35:22Oh, sh.
35:23Oh, sh.
35:24Oh, sh.
35:25Oh, sh.
35:26Oh, sh.
35:27Oh, sh.
35:28All good.
35:29You survived, Helen.
35:31It's insane.
35:32It's miserable, but we're all suffering together.
35:38We're near the end.
35:39I feel like I'm defeating the final boss.
35:42It's meant to be uncomfortable before you reach, like, paradise.
35:48This is definitely the hardest bit of walking that we've done.
35:51Yeah.
35:52Hardest bit.
35:53How far do you think we've got to go?
35:54We're getting close, but I'll be honest, I wish it was closer.
35:57Are we at the top yet?
35:58It just keeps going now, so far.
36:01Oh.
36:02Hurrah.
36:03Really hurrah.
36:04Oh, my goodness.
36:05I can't even look.
36:06It's going to be so easy to give up right now.
36:08I know, I know.
36:10At the top of the pass is St. Meinrad Chapel, the pilgrims' last stop before they reach their
36:17final destination tomorrow.
36:22Oh, wow.
36:23It's said the chapel stands on the spot where Meinrad established his first hermitage in the ninth century.
36:30Absolutely beautiful.
36:32Beautiful and dry.
36:35Meinrad was a Benedictine monk whose hermit life led to the founding of Einzilden Abbey.
36:40So St. Meinrad, who you'll see depicted on the ceiling, he longed for a life of solitude.
36:46He decided to go into the wilderness where he could just focus on praying.
36:49Pilgrims would visit him.
36:50They'd go and give him gifts and stuff.
36:52He wasn't interested and he'd like give them to the poor.
36:54And on his journey into the wilderness, he met an abbess and she gifted him a black Madonna.
37:01What is a black Madonna?
37:02You know, like Mother Mary?
37:03Yeah.
37:04But depicted with dark skin.
37:07There are many myths and stories about the origins of the black Madonna.
37:12Apparently miracles happen when they're around.
37:15I used to have a black Madonna in my caravan.
37:17It's just like all my friends that have it as well.
37:20It's a very gypsy cultured as well, the black Madonna.
37:24It's supposed to give you good luck.
37:26And it's actually called a black Madonna, funny enough,
37:28because people used to leave them next to their candles in the old days
37:31and then they'd just turn black.
37:32So over time it was named the black Madonna, which is quite cool.
37:38After seven years in his search for solitude,
37:41Meinrad moved his hermitage further into the mountains,
37:44towards the dark forest, where in 861 AD he met a violent death.
37:51Two robbers beat him up and killed him.
37:55And the story goes that two crows that he'd been feeding
37:59followed the robbers afterwards, attacking them and identifying them.
38:04So the robbers were executed.
38:06So he's a top monk?
38:08A great monk.
38:09OK.
38:10Where he had his hermitage, pilgrims would go and visit that place.
38:12Over the years they built a monastery and eventually that became the place
38:15where they built Anseldon Abbey.
38:17Well, with that in mind, why don't we follow in Meinrad's footsteps?
38:21Yes.
38:22Do it.
38:23Please.
38:24Let's go, brothers and sisters.
38:26Let's go.
38:31For Jay, the pilgrimage has been a reassuring experience.
38:35I have enjoyed pilgrimage.
38:38I think observing the other pilgrims and how our experiences made them lean
38:42often further into the faith that they already had made me more confident.
38:46OK, yeah, I'm definitely agnostic.
38:48And an agnostic doesn't know what's going on.
38:50I feel more confidently aware that I'm confused and happier that I've explored the question.
38:56And I think I've got as far as I can get for now.
39:00Do you think you could have lived on your own in the Hermitage?
39:03What is a Hermitage again?
39:04I think it's just getting away from the world so you can think clearly.
39:07I think there's a part of me that would really enjoy a sort of Hermitage style pilgrimage.
39:12I'm grateful to have spent time with six really interesting people.
39:16But it has been a mad house.
39:19Sorry, everyone, but it's true.
39:27It's the group's last day of their pilgrimage.
39:30And just ahead of them is their final destination in the foothills of the Swiss Alps.
39:36We saved the best views for the last day.
39:38I am so happy because yesterday I was miserable.
39:43And now I'm a human solar battery being recharged.
39:48I ain't going to miss the stench.
39:49I mean, it's beautiful views, but it stinks.
39:51No one's going to miss your stench, Harry.
39:53Whoa! Look, it's there.
39:57If you think about it, like, channeling pilgrims that went before us,
40:01this would have been the view, you know, the very view, wouldn't it?
40:05I think it is quite special if you think about, like, the number of people that have done this and tread this path.
40:11Maybe a bit more cobblestone-y, you know, back in the day.
40:14But if people keep on doing it, like, there must be something special.
40:19My understanding of God has become bigger on this pilgrimage.
40:26One of the things I'm most grateful for from all my pilgrims is just learning that, actually, we all really care about this stuff.
40:34Is it that we could all be celebrating the same God in different ways?
40:42I just don't want to brush that aside or not be willing to engage with it for fear that I might have to adjust some of what I think.
40:51And I don't feel that fear anymore. I just feel a lot of freedom.
40:55If in any way, through this pilgrimage, I have given a little bit of that faith, that faith that leads to hope...
41:06And that...
41:08That makes me very happy. That feels really good.
41:12What is it?
41:13It looks a little bit like a bus stop.
41:15It's like stones in that.
41:16So this isn't a chapel, I don't think.
41:18Oh, this wasn't what I expected. I thought it was going to be one of those shrines.
41:22Pebbles.
41:23Well, has anyone got a pen? Because I think I'm going to pick up a stone.
41:27You have a selection of colours.
41:28Does anyone else want to mark a stone? Leave it in.
41:30Leave it in.
41:31Can I have purple?
41:32That is a good stone, Jay. Well done, mate. So I go first?
41:35Yeah.
41:37I...
41:38Oh...
41:39Oh...
41:41I know how to spell my name, EJ. I was just thinking about what I was going to write.
41:46Did you write, from traitors?
41:51There you go.
41:52I wrote, Nalifah the pilgrim wishes you luck.
41:55Aw.
41:57I didn't expect pilgrimage to delve as deep or make me think as hard on some of the things that I've been avoiding quite a lot of my life.
42:08It's been hard because it's a lot to grapple with, especially when I didn't expect to change at all.
42:14I go home, um, in a slightly better place, I think, than I did when I came.
42:22I'm no longer afraid to look inwards and ask those questions.
42:27I've learned, and I think I've just come to this realisation, that being a modern Muslim is not having all the answers but having the openness to ask the questions.
42:34So I've wrote on mine, Harry, stay faithful.
42:392024.
42:40There you go, you left your mark.
42:42So initially I was going to write, if you find this rock, good luck is coming your way.
42:48But it was, it's illegible, so I just wrote my initials.
42:52But I'm very happy to put it on the rocks.
42:55What does it say?
42:57Praying for renewal of all souls.
43:01I don't know whether to redo my stone quick.
43:03So I've spelt it wrong.
43:04It's faithful, but faithful also works.
43:06It does work.
43:07I'm so dyslexic.
43:08It's a joke.
43:09Faithful means, like...
43:10Feel bad now.
43:11No, no, it still works.
43:12Hope you find your way.
43:22So we've left our mark on our pilgrimage trail.
43:24Let's crack on.
43:25Let's get back on the path.
43:26Let's crack on.
43:27Amazing.
43:28Those pebbles will be there forever now, won't they?
43:30Yeah, I think so.
43:31Hopefully.
43:33We're getting closer to the abbey.
43:34Guys, there's something glistening on that tree.
43:37Oh my gosh.
43:38What?
43:39That's gold.
43:40Is it?
43:41I've seen a lot of crucifixes, but this one seems to be like the daddy.
43:45Also, it's interesting if it's real gold, that nobody's stolen it.
43:50Because that would be sacrilege.
43:52With the sun coming through the trees, that's nice, right?
43:54That is stunning.
43:55That is beautiful.
43:56This is by far the most beautiful one we've seen, I think.
44:01Pilgrimage has changed me massively, and I've grown up a lot.
44:04I've learnt so much about life and how to listen and just be calm
44:09and sort of take stuff in, and now my faith is at such a better place
44:13than it was before the start of the pilgrimage.
44:15I'm still a 21st century pilgrim.
44:17Can someone get a photo of me?
44:18At the start, my religion was very private to me.
44:21I wouldn't pray in front of people.
44:23And by the end of it, I'm like, I don't really care.
44:25I'll just do whatever I want to do.
44:27If anyone wants to talk about faith, we can.
44:29Make sure you get Jesus in.
44:31I will.
44:33Now I just feel like a new man.
44:34I'm a new man after the pilgrimage.
44:36Let's do it.
44:37Oh, jeez.
44:38Everyone in.
44:39Are you all right, Helen?
44:40Yeah.
44:42Well, I got asked, but no Jesus, so...
44:44I've got to get Jesus in.
44:46Maybe you need to stand more like that way.
44:49Not quite like that, Harry.
44:51I'll just lay down and everyone...
44:52Is Jesus in?
44:55Hang on, we don't have Jay in it.
44:56Helen, you're going to have to crash down a little bit.
44:58Get your whole face, Harry.
45:00There we go.
45:01We did it.
45:02Well done, Harry.
45:03Slick.
45:04How old-fashioned pilgrimage style of me to take a selfie, eh?
45:07Everything we get to.
45:08You went through every permutation.
45:10Video, black and white.
45:16Finally, after nearly two weeks and 300 kilometres
45:20through the Austrian and the Swiss Alps,
45:24their epic pilgrimage is almost complete.
45:28The Benedictine Abbey, run by monks like St Meinrad, is in sight.
45:33The Abbey, guys.
45:34Final destination.
45:35We did it.
45:36I didn't expect the Abbey to be so big.
45:39It's massive.
45:40It was on this site that Einseelden Abbey was founded by monks and followers of Meinrad in 934 AD, after his death.
45:56With its revered Black Madonna, the Abbey has drawn pilgrims for more than a thousand years and has been one of the most important places of pilgrimage in Europe.
46:08It also holds a world-famous library, preserving books and manuscripts going back to the 10th century.
46:16It's long had a prestigious private high school, and its prized pedigree Einseedlerhorses can be traced back 20 generations to the mid-1600s.
46:26The bells are tolling, welcoming us!
46:32We've reached the Abbey!
46:35This is very special, isn't it?
46:38Oh, my goodness.
46:40Wow!
46:42This is a whole different level.
46:43Oh, my days.
46:44Oh, my goodness.
46:46Wow.
46:50That smells like every Sunday.
46:53Yeah.
47:04That one looks pretty, like, scary.
47:06That orange light.
47:11If I can hold that.
47:13Yeah.
47:23This Abbey is stunning.
47:29It is a spectacular building.
47:31I wasn't expecting to have my breath taken away.
47:39Oh!
47:41How many years did this take of craftsmanship?
47:45I mean, there's just nothing here that's unadorned.
47:50I'm almost wordless, and I'm always someone who...
47:52You're never wordless.
47:53I always have millions of words.
47:55But it's just the grandeur and the history and the...
48:00Just the divine.
48:02Near the entrance to the Abbey,
48:05continuing the tradition of Saint Meinrad,
48:07is the small Chapel of Mercy,
48:09with its 15th-century Black Madonna.
48:14This is the Black Madonna bit.
48:16Yeah.
48:18Coming face to face with the Black Madonna,
48:20as thousands of pilgrims have done before her,
48:22Helen has questions.
48:26Father Thomas is used to welcoming pilgrims
48:29at the end of their journey.
48:31So, people come and watch the Black Madonna first.
48:34Yes.
48:36God called her to be the mother of his son,
48:39but she is a normal human being.
48:41And Mary was a virgin.
48:44Yes.
48:46Gave birth to Jesus.
48:48And remained a virgin.
48:49Yes.
48:50Yes.
48:51That's what we believe.
48:52Yes.
48:53Because interesting is, if God is able to become man,
48:57so I think he can also choose a wonderful way to become a man.
49:03So, the biggest wonder is not that she remained a virgin.
49:07The biggest wonder is that God, an endless God,
49:10is able to become a human like we are.
49:18I love the way you explain it and believe it.
49:20It's a big one though, isn't it, for a lot of people.
49:23Do you find in your teachings, do a lot of people ask you questions about that?
49:27I like that.
49:28We have to have questions up until the end of our life.
49:30At the end of our life.
49:31Including you.
49:32Including me.
49:33Yeah, hopefully.
49:34Love it, Thomas.
49:35Love it.
49:36yours.
49:38Gloria.
49:41Let and all take you.
49:43Duliso takes a moment to pray.
49:46I don't like performative prayer, so I really would.
49:48But I just feel like it's one of these places where your prayers are more heard.
49:54you get caught up in how divine it is.
49:59So I was praying here and feeling like I'm part of the chain
50:04of people coming to worship.
50:07It's very overwhelming.
50:10I think that pilgrimage has definitely been like a catalyst.
50:14I still am very bonded to this history and this mythology,
50:19but I also don't feel like that's me.
50:22There were questions which I was sort of considering at the beginning of pilgrimage,
50:26like, am I really a Baha'i? What's my definition?
50:29I don't know the answer, but I've also kind of realized I don't think it's important.
50:33The journey is what's important, and I think I'll be actively seeking
50:38and journeying in a way that I wasn't a few weeks ago.
50:42I'm going to pursue the Baha'i faith more because it's what really satisfies me,
50:48but I also know that I'm more, and I don't think I need to have figured it out.
50:52I am everything.
50:54That's the first time that I've ever meditated in a place of worship.
51:04I've learned a lot about myself on this pilgrimage.
51:08I think my experience has opened the door to curiosity around actually learning a lot more about faith,
51:16a door to something that I'd never really considered before.
51:20There is so much more for me to learn and explore.
51:25I don't think it's good enough for me to say I'm spiritual and I meditate.
51:31I think I want to go a little bit deeper than that now.
51:38At the back of the church, visitors can light votive candles,
51:42traditionally a way of offering a prayer to God.
51:46I mean, coming here is like coming home massively,
51:49and this is what I believe in, this is who I am,
51:52and this is what I was brought up with.
51:54I remember my mum would always give thanks to God for our family.
51:59I miss my loved ones,
52:01but I've never felt more connected to them than I do right now.
52:09I actually did light a candle
52:13for the family that's gone,
52:15distant family that's gone.
52:17And I put mine next to Harry.
52:19I am hoping the cafe cabbie and mine rad would be happy for me.
52:25That I'm channelling lives that have passed.
52:30I'm sure nobody would be against that.
52:34On the pilgrimage, being required to reflect about spiritualness,
52:40mixed heritage stuff,
52:41you're obviously having to go to a place that you wouldn't normally go to.
52:44It is special, isn't it, to do that?
52:47I am and have been uncomfortable about using the word
52:53Jewish background, because I don't feel it defines me,
52:57and it certainly has nothing to do with religion.
53:00But nevertheless, that is my past.
53:03And I feel a bit released from it.
53:07I have talked about believing in God, which I never thought I'd do,
53:11but it is a relief to have gone there,
53:13in that the world is a spiritual place.
53:16I mean, it is for me.
53:19The smell of incense when I came in,
53:22and that made you go a bit, ooh.
53:25Yeah, well, it just reminded me so much of church.
53:28And I've not smelled that for a while.
53:30I remember when I was a kid, it was really strong.
53:31There's a real feeling of reverence.
53:35A massive building, and everyone is gathered.
53:39It's ready all together for something.
53:42At 5pm, every day, the Abbey's monks approach the Chapel of Grace
53:51to sing the Salve Regina,
53:54a choral prayer to the Virgin Mary,
53:57said to be a fitting end to every pilgrim's journey.
53:59PIANO PLAYS
54:16CHOIR SINGS
54:46CHOIR SINGS
55:15CHOIR SINGS
55:17CHOIR SINGS
55:19CHOIR SINGS
55:21CHOIR SINGS
55:22fitting that we should end this pilgrimage with something so majestic and so beautiful as a
55:28reminder. Like, this is why we're doing the hard work. As a pilgrim, I found it very satisfying.
55:35It's like if we were building a jigsaw, we've put in the last piece and you've got that
55:40satisfaction of, like, what these two weeks have been. But there's one last experience the abbey
55:49has to offer to mark the finality of their journey.
55:56All right, to end the pilgrimage, should we drink from the holy fountain?
55:59Absolutely.
56:01If you drink from all 14 spouts, which represent the 14 holy helpers who are saints, you get
56:08good health for at least a year.
56:10Every single spout?
56:12Yeah.
56:13Right, it's my first one. Both hands.
56:15How do you do, like this?
56:19Oh, that's actually really nice.
56:24One.
56:26Two.
56:29It's actually a lot harder than you think.
56:35Dude, it actually is delicious.
56:37More good health, please.
56:39I've got it all in my bottle and then I'll down it at the end.
56:41That's so smart.
56:42I'm proud to have completed the pilgrimage.
56:47A lot has happened on the path to this abbey.
56:51We've made friends that we've shared something really special and personal with.
56:55It's quite bittersweet, to be honest.
56:57It's great that we're here and we've succeeded.
57:01But it also means that we're going to be saying goodbye to each other.
57:04What about a great hug?
57:05Yeah.
57:05Yes!
57:06Bring it in.
57:06All right, put it in there, guys.
57:08All right, pilgrimage on three.
57:10Three, two, one.
57:12Pilgrimage!
57:14Bring it in.
57:15You should be so proud of yourself.
57:17Wait, no, it actually is the end, though.
57:19It's all done.
57:20Amen.
57:20You're going to laugh.
57:21We'll never be the same again.
57:23We did well.
57:25We did do well.
57:27Jeff, can we kiss?
57:28We got there.
57:29No, we cannot kiss Harry.
57:33Oh, my God!
57:35Holy moly!
57:36We'll never be the same again.
58:06We'll never be the same again.