sillydoll
Veteran Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2002 CF: 2004 from Paris: 2006 VF: 2007 CF: 2009 Aragones, Ingles, Finisterre: 2011 X 2 on CF: 2013 'Caracoles': 2014 CF and Ingles 'Caracoles":2015 Logrono-Burgos (Hospitalero San Anton): 2016 La Douay to Aosta/San Gimignano to Rome:
500,000 visitors are expected to attend the Oberammergau Passion Play in Germany, which happens only once a decade.
Spain has declared 2010 a holy year with the feast of St. James falling on a Sunday, July 25; many will travel to Santiago de Compostela, whose cathedral houses his relic.
And through June, seminarians and priests will go to Ars, France, where St. John Vianney served his entire priestly life, to recognize The Year for Priests.
In Italy, a rare exposition of the Shroud of Turin will open in 2010.
With more than 300 million traveling annually for religious reasons and revenues exceeding $18 billion every year, faith tourism has become a significant global industry.
Spain has declared 2010 a holy year with the feast of St. James falling on a Sunday, July 25; many will travel to Santiago de Compostela, whose cathedral houses his relic.
And through June, seminarians and priests will go to Ars, France, where St. John Vianney served his entire priestly life, to recognize The Year for Priests.
In Italy, a rare exposition of the Shroud of Turin will open in 2010.
With more than 300 million traveling annually for religious reasons and revenues exceeding $18 billion every year, faith tourism has become a significant global industry.