Sara_Dhooma
Active Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Frances (14), Portuguese (15), Le Puy (17), Ingles (17), VDLP (18), Lana (18), Madrid (19) + more
For 2024 Pilgrims: €50,- donation = 1 year with no ads on the forum + 90% off any 2024 Guide. More here. (Discount code sent to you by Private Message after your donation) |
---|
No matter what, you’ll save money by not getting a room that night...
Rather be the first peregrina to walk through the holy door!Hello!
I have a kooky idea that I would like to be the first pilgrim of 2021 to obtain a Compostela. I was thinking of spending late December in Spain anyhow.
I am not sure what the proper timing would be.....
Do I arrive at the Cathedral at the exact strike of midnight? Then enjoy the Santiago festivities and then line-up at the Pilgrim Office to be numero uno??
Or for the pilgrimage to count for the year 2021, do I start walking the 100km (from Sarria, Lugo etc.) very very early on January 1st and try to arrive before anyone else?
It would be a fun goal, awesome to way experience festive Santiago, and an unforgettable kick-off for the new year.
If anyone else if interested, you are welcome. Just keep in mind that you’ll be ‘number two’ and so forth after me.
... If anyone else if interested, you are welcome. Just keep in mind that you’ll be ‘number two’ and so forth after me.
The first pilgrim of the year is the first to arrive at the pilgrim office, not the first to arrive having begun in the calendar year.
If you like competition, you could go and compete in marathons or something like that.Hello!
I have a kooky idea that I would like to be the first pilgrim of 2021 to obtain a Compostela. I was thinking of spending late December in Spain anyhow.
I am not sure what the proper timing would be.....
Do I arrive at the Cathedral at the exact strike of midnight? Then enjoy the Santiago festivities and then line-up at the Pilgrim Office to be numero uno??
Or for the pilgrimage to count for the year 2021, do I start walking the 100km (from Sarria, Lugo etc.) very very early on January 1st and try to arrive before anyone else?
It would be a fun goal, awesome to way experience festive Santiago, and an unforgettable kick-off for the new year.
If anyone else if interested, you are welcome. Just keep in mind that you’ll be ‘number two’ and so forth after me.
Imagine you do that, and someone pips you at the post. Would you be disappointed or would you just laugh it off?
Read and talked about, that's the whole point and that's what we are doing, isn't it ☺? Because otherwise, if someone has the idea that it would be cool to be the first pilgrim in a new year, one would just go to the Pilgrims Office website, look up their opening hours for a given day and then be there early enough before everyone else. And the world wouldn't even have to know, would they?She seems to be a cheerful, resilient woman with a fine sense of humour - I do hope respondents to her thread can see it in the light she intended it to be read.
That's a kind offer, @t2andreo, but don't you expect them to do the same as they did this year and post the details for 24 and 25 and for 31 December and 1 January on their blog on their website?If you want me to research the exact process and location for handling Compostelas on Christmas Day and New Years Day, when the office is closed, send me a PM so we can connect offline.
That would be cool but I imagine it would be much, much harder to arrange. Even if one could predict more or less which day that number would fall on, I'm not sure how one could predict when to show up in line to receive the exact number.In practical terms: usually, the Pilgrims Office is closed on the 1st of January. This year, for example, pilgrims could get their Compostela from 10 o’clock onwards in the sacristy of San Francisco. Being a Jacobean Holy Year, 2021 may have different arrangements, though.
But why not aim higher: try to become pilgrim number 400,000 or 500,000 In 2021. You’ll get a present, a few official handshakes, a photo and an article in La Voz de Galicia and you will not be just the first person in 2021 to achieve this, you will be the first person in modern history to achieve this. How’s that for bragging rights?
.. the holy year starts on 1st January, and the door may be open but it could be Epiphany when it opens. ...
... The whole month of December and people starting way back in SJPDP at the beginning of Dec will encounter larger numbers.
I happen to have the daily numbers of arriving pilgrims for December 2019. They vary between 40 and 160 arrivals per day. Yes, there's an increase towards the end of the month: 65 pilgrims on 22 December and 125 on 29 December. The numbers have DOUBLED, wowSo people do start way back for New Year's Eve, and December this year may not match the numbers of those summer months but I've seen it twice now, a bubble of pilgrims which fill out the available albergues definitely from Astorga, 36 stayed at Pilar in Rabnal the night I was there, + others in a BB and about 6 to 8 ahead in Tiragu in Foncebaddon much larger than adjoining days.
The daily numbers of arrivals that the Pilgrims Office published on their website were 71, 125, 162 and 163 pilgrims for 28-31 December 2019, and the total for December 2019 is published as a little over 2700 pilgrims.What were the numbers for the 31st December, I don't have access to them?
It's a popular joke and we are going to hear it a few more times between now and the 31st of December 2021Last time I walked during a Holy Year, I'm not Catholic, but I walked through the Holy Door. I walked through it a few times, in fact. Since I don't have any sins, I got *credit* against any future infractions. Good insurance to have.
It's a popular joke and we are going to hear it a few more times between now and the 31st of December 2021. What surprised me, but I don't recall where I read, is the fact that the faithful don't even have to walk through the Holy Door to gain their plenary indulgence. I guess it's just something traditional and something that makes the experience more solemn and special.
Leaving aside the sin of pride, if you are not a Catholic, you probably didn't say confession and receive Communion. Without those, you didn't receive the Jubilee plenary indulgence. So you will have to look for your insurance elsewhere (which is likely what you would do as a non-Catholic).Last time I walked during a Holy Year, I'm not Catholic, but I walked through the Holy Door. I walked through it a few times, in fact. Since I don't have any sins, I got *credit* against any future infractions. Good insurance to have.
Last time I walked during a Holy Year, I'm not Catholic, but I walked through the Holy Door. I walked through it a few times, in fact. Since I don't have any sins, I got *credit* against any future infractions. Good insurance to have.
Not officially - they remain part of official teaching though in practice many Catholics have little interest in indulgences.Didn’t the practice of plenary indulgences fall into disuse years ago? (with regard to the RC Church)
Please correct me if I’m wrong.
Found it again, it is mentioned in Xacopedia which has a long article about the Holy Door.What surprised me, but I don't recall where I read, is the fact that the faithful don't even have to walk through the Holy Door to gain their plenary indulgence. I guess it's just something traditional and something that makes the experience more solemn and special.
OK...Now I am officially jealous!Many years ago I summited Mount Kilimanjaro overnight on New Years Eve.
Oh Sara, how simple your plan seemed just a mere 12 months agoHello!
I have a kooky idea that I would like to be the first pilgrim of 2021 to obtain a Compostela. I was thinking of spending late December in Spain anyhow.
I am not sure what the proper timing would be.....
Do I arrive at the Cathedral at the exact strike of midnight? Then enjoy the Santiago festivities and then line-up at the Pilgrim Office to be numero uno??
Or for the pilgrimage to count for the year 2021, do I start walking the 100km (from Sarria, Lugo etc.) very very early on January 1st and try to arrive before anyone else?
It would be a fun goal, awesome to way experience festive Santiago, and an unforgettable kick-off for the new year.
If anyone else if interested, you are welcome. Just keep in mind that you’ll be ‘number two’ and so forth after me.
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?