Now that the creation of Compostelas is automated, is there a box or comment section to request Vicarie Pro?

Nothing on the online form. Ask when you get to the reception office - not all the volunteers are familiar with this; so you may have to be patient.

What a wonderful idea! Never knew that you could do that. Had to Google the term to find out about it.

motero99 said:

Now that the creation of Compostelas is automated, is there a box or comment section to request Vicarie Pro or do you just ask when you pick up your Compostela

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I think there must be fringe cases where it still has to be done manually -- most Compostelas when I was last there were already being done automatically, I think, though my own couldn't be for my own particular tech reasons and unusual Camino.

I do not see how any future provision to me personally of a Compostela could be IT-generated, from my deep antagonism to such mechanisms, nor my tendency to not walk upon the beaten track, although I can very easily see that this is now the "new normal" for the hugely massive majority of pilgrims.

I see it as just one more regression into more and more touristification.

The Compostela is in principle a canonical document provided by Holy Church at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela -- to have one automatically generated from IT is frankly a travesty.

Are they having trouble finding enough zoomer generation volunteers with the basic understanding of Latin to do the job properly ?