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You mean, everyone will agree you did walk the Norte. Am I getting what you mean? If yes, nice! It took me a bit to get thereIf you walked from Santander to Oviedo noone would say you had not been walking on the Norte.
I agree with you, they do! They even cut whole Caminos into bits and piecesI am also sure the association of this or that Camino are quote sure of where their responsabilities start and end.
You mean, everyone will say the you are walking and the Frances, because Le Puy route ended in SJPdP and is behind you now. Again, did I get it? Took me another bit to get thereAlso, noone will say that if you are walking from Pamplona to Burgos that you are on the Puy en Velay just because you started you walk in Le puy.
There is only one compostela, not one with distances and one without. The document that includes distances is called the Certificate of distance.
For the Compostela, only the last 100 km count, and there is nothing that says that they have to be done continuously.
To add to this, it is important to get a stamp at the place you leave the last 100km, and get a stamp there when you recommence This demonstrates that the distance is continuous when the time isn't.For a discontinuous pilgrimage in the last 100 km, get a second dated stamp when you restart.
While there are many people here who will attest to the fact that they still received the compostela with just one stamp a day in the final 100km, the formal requirement from the Pilgrim Office is that two stamps a day are needed. If one is running out of space, it is always possible to get another credential. I faced that problem this year, and ended up having a total of three credentials when I reached Santiago.I had very few spaces left for stamps in my credential by the time it came to walking the final 100km but made sure I had one per day at each overnight stop and sometimes two per day.
I think it is great that you did finish, and get the compostela. But in the context of this thread, there are some very specific requirements set by the Pilgrim Office, both for the number of stamps required and how to demonstrate the continuity of one's pilgrimage if it has to be split in time during the last 100km. It would be a great shame if someone who wanted to receive the compostela took the same approach as you did, and then did not get the certificate because they had not observed the Pilgrim Office requirements.Dougfitz I am aware one can obtain extra credentials but I wanted to have all my stamps on one. Obviously 2 stamps per day seems to be the formal requirement but quite honestly I knew I'd done that walk, if they gave me the certificate fine if not, not a problem. I was walking because it was a walk I wanted to complete and not walking in order to receive a certificate.
Hi pilgrims,
I am wondering if you walk the camino frances or any other camino route partially during the year and ultimately you do it in 2-3 years and you collect the stamps during this trips in the same pilgrim passport, will you receive the compostela for the whole route or only for the last trip you make?
Eg. you can only take a break for a week or two during the year so you start in St Jean and go until you can. Than the next year you continue from where previous year you finished and you go further and so on.
Will they consider as you fulfilled the whole frances or not? (Because you can choose from standard compostela and the one which includes also the amount of distance you took)
Thank you,
Anikó
I hope that I didn't give the impression that you were misleading anyone. I thought you were quite clear that you didn't get two stamps, and in your later post, why that was an acceptable risk to you. As I said, many others in this forum, including me, have found over the years that only getting one sello a day from Sarria is sufficient when we have started further from Santiago.I was just posting my personal experience and had no wish to mislead anyone.
I had always thought that the last 100 km must be done continuously and the CSJ site states that is the case but the page which Anemone refers to seems to contradict this?
Or does, in one stretch, just mean without gaps?
Those here who have actually worked the desk (and I know there are some) can answer more authoritatively. But I don't think they are as strict with the Distance Certificates as they are with the Compostelas.May I ask a question about the Certificate of Distance, provided by the Pigrim's Office in Santiago? I have started walking in Le Puy about a month ago, but as a slow walker on current progress will most likely run out of my 90 day visa about a week or so before making it to Santiago. One option i'm considering is to take a bus over some of the distance to enable me to still manage the final 120 kms into Santiago. In a case such as this, how would the Pilgrim's Office regard the Distance covered? Does taking motorised transport mean the distance walked beforehand is 'deleted' or is the distance by bus simply deducted from the total distance walked? I'm not fixated on getting the Certificate, but am a bit curious. Many thanks.
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