Sello or Sellos every Day?

[Houlet]

I saw a Facebook reference from this site yesterday stating that the white credencial states that it is a requirement to obtain two Sello stamps per day.

My credencial was issued by the "Association Des Amis Des Pelerins De Saint Jacques De Compostelle" and picked up from my alberque in SJPdP. I don't speak French but see no obvious reference to this requirement on it so blissfully unaware completed the Camino Frances this week with only my daily albergue cello.

There was no problem in Santiago, still blissfully ignorant I received my Compostella and Certificate of Distance, and the lady who issued them made no comment on lack of stamps.

After 775 km hard walking I would have been gutted if I had been turned away, and would hate to hear of anyone else having a problem.

Are multiple cellos per day a requirement and if so was I lucky to get away with it?

 

[mspath]

Two sellos per day are a requirement if you are only walking the last 100 kms. Since you began in SJPdP you had no problem.

 

[jeffnd]

I thought it was 2 stamps per day when you were within 100 km, regardless of where you start?

 

[donalomahony]

I thought it was 2 stamps per day when you were within 100 km, regardless of where you start?

no mspath is correct in reply above.

 

[scruffy1]

Sellos are a wonderful way to try and remember just where an incredible photo was taken, to remember in which albergue you met a new soul friend, to act as a small photo album and to reminisce. Certainly they are important in order to receive your Compostela but the document records but one day in your pilgrimage, a sign of effort well exerted, and achievement but the crendial is much more since often it serves to recall a special movement and the sellos are often the quickest way of pulling that memory from the abyss of forgetfullness.

 

[Phillypilgrim]

Both mspath and jeffnd are right. The beauty of the Camino. Walking into Portomarin Oct. 2013, we went to the Tourist/Visitor's center directly on the trail to check this exact question. She made it abundantly clear in perfect English that all Pilgrims from Sarria on, need two sellos per day regardless of where you begin. It was easy to do really.

 

[mspath]

This is what the official site of the Cathedral de Santiago states :

"To be awarded the Compostela:

• You need to have made the pilgrimage for religious reasons or for a similar motivation such as a vow.
• You need to have walked or travelled on horseback at least the last 100kms, or cycled the last 200kms, to arrive at the tomb of the Apostle in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.
• You should collect at least two sellos (stamps) each day on your credencial. This will usually be where you sleep and one other place such as a Church, ayuntamiento, café etc. You must ensure that you do this at least in the last 100 kms from the Cathedral of Santiago if you are walking or on horseback and 200 kms if you are traveling by bicycle."

Thus, with only one sello per day, nine times I have arrived without proper proof !!
However I never have had any problem receiving a Compostela.

 

[Bernard duffy]

So is it worth taking a spare passport incase first one is filled before Santiago ??

 

[mspath]

If you wish, but you can get another when necessary while on the camino.

 

[Bernard duffy]

If you wish, but you can get another when necessary while on the camino.

That's true i suppose )

 

[naplesdon]

I picked up my second one in Sahagun at the municipal albergue after my first one was complete with sellos.
I was amused in one village where I stopped for coffee by a group of pilgrims who were racing around from bar to bar trying to collect as many stamps as possible. The more the merrier no matter what your reason, I guess?

 

[Bernard duffy]

I picked up my second one in Sahagun at the municipal albergue after my first one was complete with sellos.
I was amused in one village where I stopped for coffee by a group of pilgrims who were racing around from bar to bar trying to collect as many stamps as possible. The more the merrier no matter what your reason, I guess?

I saw a few people do that as well last year,think they did it to remember what pubs they visited

 

[Icacos]

Thus, with only one sello per day, .......... I have arrived without proper proof !!.

Me too! I also received my Compostela with no problem.

 

[Phillypilgrim]

I got my second passport in Leon. I so love my stamps.