Can I give a slightly different view? When we arrived at the Cathedral last week for our first ever pilgrim mass I loved the fact that so many people there had clearly, as we had, walked straight into the city from their camino and hardly stopped to dust the sand from their feet, so to speak...
Yes, it comes right at the end of mass, and you'll have plenty of warning as you'll see the men in their robes start to gather (and the security people moving people back a bit from where they are in the way.
For what it's worth, though, I'm pretty sensitive to heavy scents - and I was hardly...
We didn't know about the Friday evening pilgrims' mass until we got to SdeC yesterday - we thought that as yesterday was Ascension Day we'd see the botafumeiro swing at the lunchtime pilgrims' mass - we didn't (but we were so glad to be there it didn't matter!) - were lucky enough to be staying...
We went to the pilgrim mass yesterday when we arrived, and it was a fantastic and moving experience but without Spanish I could only participate in my head. So to be able to go to the English mass this morning was absolutely lovely. The priest asked us all to introduce ourselves by name, where...
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