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The authoritative answer to your question lies here: https://oficinadelperegrino.com/en/pilgrimage/the-credencial/ all other answers are speculation or hearsayHello everyone,
My friend asked me a question and I'm not sure about the answer. Therefore, I hope someone here can help.
Quesion: My friend would like to walk the camino while using his favorite small notebook for daily stamping. Someone told him he can use any kind of paper / notebook / A4 paper to replace the "official pilgrim passport". Is that true? Is the unofficial pilgrim passport acceptable in the Santiago pilgrim office?
Hope someone could answer this because I am curious about this as well.
Thank you
Your profile doesn't indicate where you live, but if in the U.S., the American Pilgrims on the Camino is the recognized national confraternity. As such, APOC issues approved credentials on their website at https://americanpilgrims.org/request-a-credential/. Be sure to read all the instructions on that page, and consider ordering at least two credentials to ensure you have enough space for all your sellos.Hello everyone,
My friend asked me a question and I'm not sure about the answer. Therefore, I hope someone here can help.
Quesion: My friend would like to walk the camino while using his favorite small notebook for daily stamping. Someone told him he can use any kind of paper / notebook / A4 paper to replace the "official pilgrim passport". Is that true? Is the unofficial pilgrim passport acceptable in the Santiago pilgrim office?
Hope someone could answer this because I am curious about this as well.
Thank you
Hello everyone,
My friend asked me a question and I'm not sure about the answer. Therefore, I hope someone here can help.
Quesion: My friend would like to walk the camino while using his favorite small notebook for daily stamping. Someone told him he can use any kind of paper / notebook / A4 paper to replace the "official pilgrim passport". Is that true? Is the unofficial pilgrim passport acceptable in the Santiago pilgrim office?
Hope someone could answer this because I am curious about this as well.
Thank you
This is the way to go. Get the official passport stamped and then get an additional one in the notebook. Let me suggest that you get a few passports but only have them stamped on one side. This will allow you to see all stamps if you tack the passports up on a wall or frame them.As others have said, you must have an officially recognized credential to get a compostela. One year in addition to the credential I carried a small notebook that I got stamped.
I have used the APOC site for obtaining credentials for all five of my Caminos and also have ordered them for those who have accompanied me. It's very simple to do, and the organization sends them in a timely fashion. Although there is no charge for this service, donations are appreciated.Your profile doesn't indicate where you live, but if in the U.S., the American Pilgrims on the Camino is the recognized national confraternity. As such, APOC issues approved credentials on their website at https://americanpilgrims.org/request-a-credential/. Be sure to read all the instructions on that page, and consider ordering at least two credentials to ensure you have enough space for all your sellos.
I'm trying to understand what fraud could be perpetrated by collecting stamps in a notebook.As to collecting stamps on both, this used to be OK ; but it has been frowned upon to a degree in recent decades, as cases of fraud have become more numerous than they were.
Trecile, presumably, someone collecting two sets of stamps (one in a credential and one in a notebook) could be collecting for an absentee who wanted a Compostela without walking for it. I suspect that this is what JabbaPapa meant. Tom HaggerI'm trying to understand what fraud could be perpetrated by collecting stamps in a notebook.
Probably but pretty silly since someone collecting stamps for fraudsters can carry 100 passports and get them all stamped at different spots in the morning and then again in the afternoon. And most could be gotten quickly with self-service.Trecile, presumably, someone collecting two sets of stamps (one in a credential and one in a notebook) could be collecting for an absentee who wanted a Compostela without walking for it. I suspect that this is what JabbaPapa meant. Tom Hagger
Indeed.Trecile, presumably, someone collecting two sets of stamps (one in a credential and one in a notebook) could be collecting for an absentee who wanted a Compostela without walking for it. I suspect that this is what JabbaPapa meant.
I saw someone stamping a whole stack of passports at one of those freestanding, self-service passport kiosks between Sarria and Santiago. It didn't dawn on me til later that he might have been a tour guide or some kind of group leader.Probably but pretty silly since someone collecting stamps for fraudsters can carry 100 passports and get them all stamped at different spots in the morning and then again in the afternoon. And most could be gotten quickly with self-service.
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