Sep 22, 2016 | A St. Bonaventure University alumnus whose religious pilgrimage with his son is the subject of a photographic exhibition at the university’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts will give a talk at the Quick Center at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28.

Bob Kunzinger, a freelance author from Virginia Beach, Va., and a 1983 graduate of St. Bonaventure, will share stories from the journey he made with his 21-year-old son, Michael, on the Camino de Santiago, a 500-mile pilgrimage from southern France to the northern coast of Spain. It is the same path walked by Saint Francis of Assisi more than 800 years ago.

The photos in the exhibition were taken by Michael Kunzinger, while his father provided accompanying text.

In an article he wrote for the February 2016 edition of St. Anthony Messenger magazine, Bob Kunzinger said a pilgrimage is more than getting from point A to point B; it’s also a metaphor for life.

“Pilgrims think about each leg of the journey, usually each step,” he said. “Pilgrims deal with daily sacrifices in order to reach their goal; often is it only through sacrifice that they can reach that goal, for it isn’t unusual for choices to lead us away from our destination … Blisters and rainy days are part of the journey. And so it is in life.”

Kunzinger’s talk is free and open to the public. The exhibition runs through Nov. 22 in the Mezzanine Gallery.

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