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Crandall said:
I start my first Camino from SJDP on April 21st. I have a Camino patch for my backpack. Normally I add patches to my pack after I do something, but am thinking of adding this one before the journey. Think this would be premature or disrespectful?
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Not at all. Lots of people like to have a Camino patch on their backpack while they are walking the Camino.
 
Crandall said:
I start my first Camino from SJDP on April 21st. I have a Camino patch for my backpack. Normally I add patches to my pack after I do something, but am thinking of adding this one before the journey. Think this would be premature or disrespectful?
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We carry a scallop shell when, historically speaking, that wasn't picked up until the end of the journey in Finisterre.
A patch is the same thing in my view.
Do as you wish...there are no hard & fast 'rules'.
 
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Crandall said:
I start my first Camino from SJDP on April 21st. I have a Camino patch for my backpack. Normally I add patches to my pack after I do something, but am thinking of adding this one before the journey. Think this would be premature or disrespectful?
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Not at all, think of it as a destination label - if you get lost then people will know where to send you

Buen Camino!
 
Tassie Kaz said:
We carry a scallop shell when, historically speaking, that wasn't picked up until the end of the journey in Finisterre.
A patch is the same thing in my view.
Do as you wish...there are no hard & fast 'rules'.
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Last couple of centuries pilgrims have been walking with shells from their starting destination.

But true, coming back with a shell as a proof of having made the camino and no longer being lawless was reality in the medieval ages.
 
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I've had one on my backpack for every Camino. So, no, it is not disrespectful nor premature at all! It identifies you as a Camino Pilgrim
 

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camino.ninja said:
Last couple of centuries pilgrims have been walking with shells from their starting destination.

But true, coming back with a shell as a proof of having made the camino and no longer being lawless was reality in the medieval ages.
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Yes...therefore a relatively 'new' practice in the context of the age (as in years) of the Camino as a pilgrimage!
 
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First and foremost, I don't think anyone will be offended.
Second, as has already been pointed out, the shift you are describing with the patch (from evidence of pilgrimage completion to evidence of pilgrim status) has already occurred with the shell. You're just moving it to a different format.
Third and final, if you are concerned about misleading folk, you can consider the type of patch and placement. A patch that says "Santiago de Compostela", placed amid a number of other desitnation patches for places you have been communicates a different message from a Camino Forum patch, or a pilgrim organization patch (like the Canadian Company of Pilgrims patch on my backpack), or a shell patch, not so located.
 
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