Frankie White says she will never forget the first time she and her husband, Rick, arrived at the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Galicia region of northwestern Spain.
“There was this sense of awe that we had made it — that we had walked so far and here we are,” she recalls. “It’s a magnificent cathedral. The area in front of it is large and full of people. There’s a definite celebratory mood, but there’s also reverence. You can tell that people are turned inward with their thoughts. Gratitude. So much emotion.”
Rick White had been a juvenile probation officer, lawyer and, for 22 years, a judge in Spokane. Frankie had been an educator for 34 years and an accomplished photographer and artist. They had met while attending Gonzaga University (classes of 1973 and 1974, respectively). Fast forward four decades…