Help Albergue Santa Cruz in Sahagun

[Simon Shum]

Donated! Glad to be able to help! Hope to stay there in a year or two!

 

[kitz]

I also donated and I hope their future plumbing renovations go smoothly and they will be able to reopen soon.

 

[docpam]

Have contributed

 

[Paul_Garland]

Oh, my. I'm so sorry to hear about the plumbing issues! I hobbled into the albergue with sciatica this past spring. I was welcomed warmly and cared for so well. They gave me, without my having to ask, a first floor private room and charged me 5 Euros. They guided me to a nearby restaurant, which ironically was on fire when I got there. The whole experience there was beyond anything I could have expected.

And as a Benedictine Oblate, I'm so happy to donate what I can. Rebekah, please do keep us posted on your progress in this fundaising project!

 

[Paul_Garland]

Oh, my. I'm so sorry to hear about the plumbing issues! I hobbled into the albergue with sciatica this past spring. I was welcomed warmly and cared for so well. They gave me, without my having to ask, a first floor private room and charged me 5 Euros. They guided me to a nearby restaurant, which ironically was on fire when I got there. The whole experience there was beyond anything I could have expected.

And as a Benedictine Oblate, I'm so happy to donate what I can. Rebekah, please do keep us posted on your progress in this fundaising project!

Priscilla, that was a bit of an 'interesting' Sunday afternoon... I had just recommended the bar to you to eat when I saw it on fire and thought of you. You'll be glad to hear that the guy who was thrown out of the kitchen by the explosión wasnt badly hurt, and was able to laugh it off. I think Sahagún is getting a fire truck of its own and wont have to wait for ones to come from León and Palencia for almost an hour.

 

[Lyndale]

Donated. Would be nice to go way over needed amount and fix the sisters plumbing too. Wouldn't be right to just fix the pilgrim area plumbing and leave the sisters with unhealthy water. Another round of donations anyone?

 

[Paladina]

I’ve only just seen this appeal, so my belated donation on its way.

 

[brambles]

This albergue is really special! I have very, very fond memories of staying here this past summer. I think a lot of people bypass Sahagun (just stop to get their half way certificate and move on), but in my opinion Santa Cruz is a reason to spend the night. I had to visit the urgent care in Sahagun for an issue with my foot and I was feeling very depressed. The group meeting and communal pot luck style dinner (my daughter went to to a well stocked grocery store for ice for my foot and our contribution to the meal) was really wonderful and brought my spirits up. Not to mention that the albergue is beautiful, super clean and incredibly inexpensive. I am not in a position right now to donate much, but I will donate something and I hope others will do the same. Thank you for posting this need!

 

[IngridF]

We all did it . Rebekah has an extra 10.000 to add to the rest. Thank you all who helped make this happen hugs ingrid

 

[IngridF]

I’ve only just seen this appeal, so my belated donation on its way.

No worries it will go to help fix the pipes for the nuns

 

[Former member 49149]

We all did it . Rebekah has an extra 10.000 to add to the rest. Thank you all who helped make this happen hugs ingrid

Thanks to you, Ingrid, for drawing this to our attention.

 

[Bala]

We all did it . Rebekah has an extra 10.000 to add to the rest. Thank you all who helped make this happen hugs ingrid

Fantastic! So happy to read this.

 

[Rebekah Scott]

Thanks all you guys! Tom, this is Albergue de Santa Cruz, a Benedictine place. There aren't any Poor Clares or Santa Claras in Sahagun, but no matter... WE MADE THE $10,000 GOAL!! We still need to collect a bit more cash to make it to 10,000 EURO, and that is trickling in now.
And this morning Father Daniel let me know the building plans submitted to the Junta de Castilla y Leon were approved... they have the green light to start working!

THANKS YOU GUYS! Once again, you've proved the Anglophone pilgrim community is generous beyond all reason.

 

[forwardwego]

Thanks all you guys! Tom, this is Albergue de Santa Cruz, a Benedictine place. There aren't any Poor Clares or Santa Claras in Sahagun, but no matter... WE MADE THE $10,000 GOAL!! We still need to collect a bit more cash to make it to 10,000 EURO, and that is trickling in now.
And this morning Father Daniel let me know the building plans submitted to the Junta de Castilla y Leon were approved... they have the green light to start working!

THANKS YOU GUYS! Once again, you've proved the Anglophone pilgrim community is generous beyond all reason.

Thank you Rebekah for the updates and your tireless efforts to spearhead/coordinate and get stuff done via Peaceable Projects!

 

[peregrina2000]

Thanks all you guys! Tom, this is Albergue de Santa Cruz, a Benedictine place. There aren't any Poor Clares or Santa Claras in Sahagun, but no matter... WE MADE THE $10,000 GOAL!! We still need to collect a bit more cash to make it to 10,000 EURO, and that is trickling in now.
And this morning Father Daniel let me know the building plans submitted to the Junta de Castilla y Leon were approved... they have the green light to start working!

THANKS YOU GUYS! Once again, you've proved the Anglophone pilgrim community is generous beyond all reason.

Rebekah, you are the one who deserves the thanks. You have given us the opportunity to spend in support of such a worthy project that we never would have heard about without you.

 

[VNwalking]

What Laurie said. ☝

Once again, you've proved the Anglophone pilgrim community is generous beyond all reason.

Who needs a reason anyway? It is love.
Heartfelt thanks for being the conduit, Reb.

 

[laineylainey]

Hope this thread is repeated a couple more times over the coming week, to keep it fresh in peoples minds?

 

[SYates]

Hope this thread is repeated a couple more times over the coming week, to keep it fresh in peoples minds?

Absolutely! BC SY

 

[camino07]

Late but donated.

 

[t2andreo]

This reminds me of the New Testament advice to "...ask and you shall receive, knock and it shall be opened...seek and you shall find..."

Okay, so I am paraphrasing... But y'all get the idea...

I think of it as a old fashioned barn raising... all the neighbors gather and assemble a barn from scratch. It is still done regularly among the Amish and Mennonite communities here in the US. It is a wonderment to see happen. At the crack of dawn, there is an open field. By sundown there is a functioning barn awaiting its first coat of red paint.

Here in the US, we will be celebrating our semi-secular national holiday of Thanksgiving in a few weeks. The historic antecedents of this holiday notwithstanding, I am thankful this year for all of you Camino nuts out there...

Personally, I am proud of all of each one of you. Thank you again for your generosity.

Keep on paying it forward...

 

[Pellicano Solitudinis]

Contributed my small mite.

 

[rappahannock_rev]

Any forward motion, two plus months on?

 

[goldie from aus]

Done better late than never. Very easy. Planning 1st Camino this year will definitely stay.

 

[DoughnutANZ]

Any forward motion, two plus months on?

I wrote to the Santa Cruz community and this is the reply I got:
"Hello Doug

Thanks for asking. Unfortunately, the plumbers are still working in the albergue (in slow motion, I think). We calculate that we will not reopen before Holy week because after a major work like this we are obliged to do a cleaning treatment and tests. Anyway, we hope to be back on business in mid-April, although the problem with Coronavirus might reduce the number of pilgrims until May.

Hope that everything is going well for you. Kind regards from the community"

 

[Rebekah Scott]

Yeah... the plumbers of Sahagun are a sorry lot. But work goes on. Spain is no country for people in a hurry.
Thanks, too, the the Canadian Company of Pilgrims and the Camino Society of Ireland for continuing support. If the entire monastic complex were renewed, it would cost 70,000!!

 

[Peregrinopaul]

I'm in too. A great project Rebekah.

 

[Peregrinopaul]

I didn't notice the date, and that you had succeded already! Happy for my contribution to go to another Peaceable project.

 

[Bala]

I wrote to the Santa Cruz community and this is the reply I got:
"Hello Doug

Thanks for asking. Unfortunately, the plumbers are still working in the albergue (in slow motion, I think). We calculate that we will not reopen before Holy week because after a major work like this we are obliged to do a cleaning treatment and tests. Anyway, we hope to be back on business in mid-April, although the problem with Coronavirus might reduce the number of pilgrims until May.

Hope that everything is going well for you. Kind regards from the community"

Thanks for the update. Prayers continue for the successful completion of this work. And for a successful season of healthy pilgrims this year.