In 2019 alone, the Camino de Santiago (the Way of St. James), one of Europe’s three most significant medieval pilgrimage routes, was followed by 347,511 pilgrims from around the world. This pilgrimage route has been the subject of numerous research projects conducted by international groups of specialists in various scientific disciplines. This study presents correlations between St. Thomas Aquinas’s doctrine on the virtue of fortitude and the experience of Polish pilgrims on the Camino based on 50 in-depth interviews conducted in the summer of 2019 on Monte do Gozo in Santiago de Compostela. This objective was achieved using the methodology of qualitative research following Steinar Kvale’s recommendations. The transcriptions of the interviews were coded based on the classifications in the Summa Theologica by Aquinas, classified into categories, and subsequently analyzed using MAXQDA Analytics Pro 2020. The virtue of fortitude is indispensable in the decision-making process and the ability to put one’s decisions into practice (Morales-Sánchez & Cabello-Medina, 2013. Journal of Business Ethics, 116(4), 717–734). One manifestation of the Camino pilgrims’ virtue of fortitude allowed them to believe that they would be more employable after they returned to their communities.

仅在 2019 年，欧洲最重要的三大中世纪朝圣路线之一的 Camino de Santiago（圣詹姆斯之路）紧随其后的是来自世界各地的 347,511 名朝圣者。这条朝圣之路一直是各个科学学科的国际专家小组进行的众多研究项目的主题。本研究基于 2019 年夏天在圣地亚哥德孔波斯特拉的 Monte do Gozo 进行的 50 次深度访谈，展示了圣托马斯·阿奎那关于坚韧美德的学说与波兰朝圣者在卡米诺的经历之间的相关性。该目标是根据 Steinar Kvale 的建议使用定性研究方法实现的。访谈的转录是根据Summa Theologica 中的分类编码的由 Aquinas 进行分类，随后使用 MAXQDA Analytics Pro 2020 进行分析。在决策过程和将决策付诸实践的能力中，坚韧的美德必不可少（Morales-Sánchez 和 Cabello-Medina，2013 年。Journal of商业道德，116 (4), 717–734。卡米诺朝圣者坚韧的美德的一种表现使他们相信，回到自己的社区后，他们会更容易就业。