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Today is the day the record will be broken! lavozdegalicia.es
Sometime today Santiago will receive pilgrim number 180 000 for 2010, meaning that the 2004 record will be beaten - with 127 days of Holy Year still remaining.
It was cold, but not raining, that Friday night on 31 December 2004 with not even a handful of minutes left to nine o’ clock in the evening when a pilgrim from Barcelona (12) collected his Compostela. The Catalan had just been give a very special, in fact, unparalleled certificate, the last one for that year and would enter the annals of Christianity as the largest turnout of pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago. Previously, in that Holy Year, another 179 943 people had obtained the certificate.
Today as an adult, the kid will lose that status because between this evening and tomorrow, pilgrim number 179 945 will arrive in the Galician capital. The record of the historic route will not only be broken, it will be shattered. So far 122 142 Spanish (68.7 %) and the rest, almost 55 600, foreigners have earned the Compostela.
Throughout August the Archbishopric of Santiago has been issuing a daily average of 1,791 documents, while on certain days of the month as many as 2450 . Therefore, depending on the workload assigned in the next 48 hours to the office where the credentials are provided, the historical record of 2004 will be beaten today. Not surprisingly, the staff of the pilgrim centre now has 35 employees and volunteers.
Also, therefore, the most optimistic forecasts of the Church, whose leaders had predicted in 2009 that the Apostle would attract during this Xacobeo Year, in the best case scenario, 200,000 pilgrims, will be exceeded.
This means that if between now and Christmas this rate does not fall, or go up, the estimates will be roughly 235,000 pilgrims. The pope's trip to Galicia on 6 November could pull those numbers even higher, according to experts. For now, the announcement of the visit has already filled the hotels and their rates shot up to 205 euros per night.
Sometime today Santiago will receive pilgrim number 180 000 for 2010, meaning that the 2004 record will be beaten - with 127 days of Holy Year still remaining.
It was cold, but not raining, that Friday night on 31 December 2004 with not even a handful of minutes left to nine o’ clock in the evening when a pilgrim from Barcelona (12) collected his Compostela. The Catalan had just been give a very special, in fact, unparalleled certificate, the last one for that year and would enter the annals of Christianity as the largest turnout of pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago. Previously, in that Holy Year, another 179 943 people had obtained the certificate.
Today as an adult, the kid will lose that status because between this evening and tomorrow, pilgrim number 179 945 will arrive in the Galician capital. The record of the historic route will not only be broken, it will be shattered. So far 122 142 Spanish (68.7 %) and the rest, almost 55 600, foreigners have earned the Compostela.
Throughout August the Archbishopric of Santiago has been issuing a daily average of 1,791 documents, while on certain days of the month as many as 2450 . Therefore, depending on the workload assigned in the next 48 hours to the office where the credentials are provided, the historical record of 2004 will be beaten today. Not surprisingly, the staff of the pilgrim centre now has 35 employees and volunteers.
Also, therefore, the most optimistic forecasts of the Church, whose leaders had predicted in 2009 that the Apostle would attract during this Xacobeo Year, in the best case scenario, 200,000 pilgrims, will be exceeded.
This means that if between now and Christmas this rate does not fall, or go up, the estimates will be roughly 235,000 pilgrims. The pope's trip to Galicia on 6 November could pull those numbers even higher, according to experts. For now, the announcement of the visit has already filled the hotels and their rates shot up to 205 euros per night.
