After a particularly difficult first week of the Ignatian Camino, we had a rest day in the city of Zaragoza. We had time to visit the city and wash our clothes at the laundromat.

In the afternoon I visited the Museo Goya and an exhibition of etchings by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), the Spanish painter and graphic artist.

The Third of May execution was an indiscriminate killing of civilians by French soldiers in reprisal for a guerrilla attack the previous day. Goya’s painting of the massacre shows terrified civilians facing a firing squad.

I was particularly taken by this painting of the Virgin and Child by an artist whom I hadn’t heard of before Flamenco Antonimo.