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very helpful indeed.The pilgrim's name needs to be on the credencial. Albergues and the Pilgrim Office often check your passport against the credencial. The compostela must be issued in your name, but you can dedicate it to someone else who is deceased or physically unable to complete a camino. Their name is added vicare pro.
Thank you, I will do just the same.I have done it twice and found it helpful to bring a piece of paper with the words Vicarie Pro and the person's name in capital, printed letters so there is no misunderstanding or misspellings. I then put that on the pilgrim office counter with my credencial and passport. On the walk I use my credencial in my own name, and the compostela is made out to me with the Vicarie Pro and name added further down on the document.
Excellent, thank you.Every pilgrim must present themselves with a valid credencial to obtain a Compostela. The ONLY alternative is to obtain YOUR Compostela, and request an “In Vicare Pro” dedication.
Catholic Church dogma provides that a living person can obtain graces and indulgences for either a deceased person, or a living person, whose age or physical condition is such that they will NEVER be able to do their own Camino. The “In Vicare Pro” statement says, on colloquial Latin “ in place of.” Vicare is the root word of vicarious.
It is simple: one live face + one properly completed credencial = one Compostela. Only the exception above is available.
Hope this helps.
No. Only one name. Trust me: I worked as a volunteer for 2 weeks in the Pilgrim's Office in SdC this May/June.Hello !
I want to go to the Camino de Santiago in memory of two dead people - my father and my husband's mother. Can I enter two names in the column "In Vicare Pro ..."? Is it possible?
Thank you
This is bad (((
No need to choose, Irena!I have 14 days
Hola IrinaThanks for the tips and information, but I have 14 days and I will definitely go Primitivo (some of the stops are booked). I will ask a question in the office, but if not, the column will remain empty, and the people dear to me in my heart!
Thanks for the advice Akula415, but that wasn't my question.What I did was the type out on nice paper the names of the persons (both living and passed away) on a nice clean sheet of paper and write a letter to St James. As I walked I stamped the envelope with sellos as many times as I could. And when I arrived in Santiago, I deposited the letter with the names of people at the relics of St James. Alternatively you could obtain an additional passport and stamp it along the way with the other person's name, but NOT use it to obtain a Compostela. Which as we read above is not possible to obtain for anyone other than one's self except via VP.
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