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Yes, but this is provided that you can show (prove) that you have walked at least 25-30kms before leaving home with stamps in your credential. In the UK Post Offices have stamps and they are dated.
This post from earlier in the year by @JohnnieWalker explains it nicely:
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/changes-to-rules-for-the-compostela-from-a-coruña.44759/
In addition to this excellent link, here is the link to the Voz de Galicia article on the first two local pilgrims who received a Compostela after starting from Coruna. Local pilgrims have to satisfy additional conditions. The two pilgrims in question walked 91 km, btw. The rules are in force since the end of December 2016. @Raimund Joos may want to change the title of this thread as it contains two mistakes.This post from earlier in the year by @JohnnieWalker explains it nicely:
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/changes-to-rules-for-the-compostela-from-a-coruña.44759/
The two pilgrims in question walked 91 km said:@Raimund Joos[/USER] may want to change the title of this thread as it contains two mistakes.
I recently attended our Canadian Company of Pilgrim's annual Victoria Chapter gathering and the information given by the National president is that currently there are only a couple/few countries able to provide the necessary documentation/stamps to properly qualify someone who wishes to walk the 25kms in their home country. I am not 100% certain but believe this has been organized in England and Ireland but have no official documentation I can point to, just my memory from the meeting.Is there a dokumet that prove that .... not just a post? I think every pilgrim has been walking 25 km at home once bevor he started his camino in spain ...So what?
From the website of the Confraternity of St James in the UK: https://www.csj.org.uk/planning-you...o-santiago/routes-in-spain/the-camino-ingles/
* Please note that as of December 2016 the Cathedral authorities in Santiago have indicated that they are prepared to issue a compostela to pilgrims who can evidence a walk of at least 25 – 30km in the UK (or elsewhere) prior to travelling to A Coruña – details here. Please see Walk Another Pilgrimage for details of UK pilgrim and spiritual routes; at the moment only the Pilgrims Way (Winchester or London to Canterbury) or the Way of St Andrews (various starting points to St Andrews) have pilgrim passports and stamps which would provide proof for the Pilgrim Office in Santiago. The CSJ is actively communicating with churches on various routes regarding the possibility of having stamps available for pilgrims.
Apparently!!As always, I'm curious why a piece of paper matters? Does having that piece of paper provide some benefit that I'm not aware of?
Symbols are an integral part of life and IMO the Compostela is no different. If material items didn't matter to anyone then would anyone take a photo while on the Camino? Carry a scallop shell? Write in a journal to read over in years to come? I know I cherish these items and am pretty sure I am not alone. In a more tangible way, young Spaniards also benefit by having a Compostela on their CV when looking for work probably not all that different than displaying that piece of paper many of us receive when they graduate high school or university.As always, I'm curious why a piece of paper matters? Does having that piece of paper provide some benefit that I'm not aware of?
The 100 km are artificial and totally pointless ;-).Is it too harsh to say that maybe people should just toughen up and start 100 km from Santiago de Compostela?
In a more tangible way, young Spaniards also benefit by having a Compostela on their CV when looking for work probably not all that different than displaying that piece of paper many of us receive when they graduate high school or university.
The 100 km are artificial and totally pointless ;-).
Quote [my translation]:
Today's caminos have little to do with the medieval pilgrimages but historically, a lot more - and I mean really a lot more - pilgrims started in the port of Coruna than in Ferrol or Sarria or Tui, ie than 100 km from Santiago.
- This decision of the ecclesiastical entity [= Santiago Cathedral] is supported, according to the [Coruna] alderman, by "a historical and weighty justification." In particular, he points out that the port of Coruña was "the main point of entry for pilgrims, arriving from across the sea, from the fourteenth century onwards.
The problem today is, of course, that you have to build and then row your own boat or hitch a lift on a sailboat if you want to arrive in the port of Coruna at the end of a sea voyage from your home country elsewhere in Europe or around the Med. There are no longer any feasible commercial options for passengers travelling to and from Coruna by ship, as it was the case in the Middle Ages. Perhaps this might change with this obvious promotion for starting in Coruna harbor - at least once in a while? I would be the first to walk from Santiago to Coruna and then sail home.
I image that @Raimund Joos is wanting to get the right answer so he can put it in his guide book. @JohnnieWalker is the person I would contact and rely on, he lives and works in SDC and has direct contact with the Cathedral authorities.
Hope this helps you (and others).http://www.catedraldesantiago.es/es/respuesta-cabildo-compostela-desde-coruña
Respuesta del Cabildo de la Catedral de Santiago a la petición para conceder la Compostela a los peregrinos que vienen al sepulcro del Apóstol Santiago desde A…
CATEDRALDESANTIAGO.ES
I was looking at St Michael's Way, the only UK route that claims to be an official extension of the Camino but at 19km, it's a bit too short to add to an A Coruna start.From the website of the Confraternity of St James in the UK: https://www.csj.org.uk/planning-you...o-santiago/routes-in-spain/the-camino-ingles/
* Please note that as of December 2016 the Cathedral authorities in Santiago have indicated that they are prepared to issue a compostela to pilgrims who can evidence a walk of at least 25 – 30km in the UK (or elsewhere) prior to travelling to A Coruña – details here. Please see Walk Another Pilgrimage for details of UK pilgrim and spiritual routes; at the moment only the Pilgrims Way (Winchester or London to Canterbury) or the Way of St Andrews (various starting points to St Andrews) have pilgrim passports and stamps which would provide proof for the Pilgrim Office in Santiago. The CSJ is actively communicating with churches on various routes regarding the possibility of having stamps available for pilgrims.
I was looking at St Michael's Way, the only UK route that claims to be an official extension of the Camino but at 19km, it's a bit too short to add to an A Coruna start.
Depending on where you live you could gain the extra kms by walking from home and then along St Michaels Way. Get a stamp or signature from your church and also from Post Offices as you walk. Alternative would be to walk to the ferry port if using Brittany Ferries. By my reading of the Cathedral website a designated route is not required. I think that the 'officially recognised' route pre-dates the new rule. Hopefully @JohnnieWalker can clarify this.I was looking at St Michael's Way, the only UK route that claims to be an official extension of the Camino but at 19km, it's a bit too short to add to an A Coruna start.
The whole point of this new concession, as I understand it, is that it is possible to start 'at home' and then walk from A Coruna.
Raimund, I don't know how fluent you are in Spanish but you could obviously contact the author of the article, Fernando Borjas, and ask him directly. Or you could post your question beneath the article of 27 March as I can see that this writer engages with his readers.If the first artice is right that is not the most actual massage. That articel tells that it is enough to start vorm A Coruna now - the question is just wehether the articel is just wrong or if there realy is a new regulation.
Raimund, I don't know how fluent you are in Spanish but you could obviously contact the author of the article, Fernando Borjas, and ask him directly.
I sense, also from your earlier messages in this thread, that you regard this (largely volunteer) outfit as a service provider and we are their customers and you are not always happy with their services, rightI still think the the best way would bee if the pilgrims office itselve would just bee so kind to publish actual and clear informations for there cusdomers
I sense, also from your earlier messages in this thread, that you regard this (largely volunteer) outfit as a service provider and we are their customers and you are not always happy with their services, right? They depend on the S.A.M.I Catedral who put out a press release (see link earlier in this thread) about this in December and the news were duly spread. I don't live in the archbishopry of Santiago and general feel that they owe me nothing ... but then I don't write guidebooks either. Best of luck with your endeavours and further information research!
We can only again point you to @JohnnieWalker 's thread (Changes to rules....) and the link he gives to the Cathedral's own website. The newspaper article does not appear to be correct and yes there is a new regulation just for this arm of the Camino Inglés. The webpage given is the official one and is what is in force at the pilgrim office.If the first artice is right that is not the most actual massage. That articel tells that it is enough to start vorm A Coruna now - the question is just wehether the articel is just wrong or if there realy is a new regulation.
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Raimund
I don't live in the UK but if I did the idea of walking from home or from a place of particular religious or historic significance to a Channel port (seaport in Southern England) and then continue directly from Coruña would be more appealing than doing this odd pirouette between Ferrol and A CoruñaThe phrase "tempest in a teapot" comes to mind here. If the historical significance of A Coruña is important to one's Camino experience and finding a 25 km walk in your home country that is acceptable to the cathedral authorities is a problem, why not just start somewhere else in Spain?
Well - I realy think it is a real good bussines -eaven if they are glad to have some volunteers to make advertisment with and through them. (Like also comercial albergues on the way do so too and wath need not be immoral in anny case). They make a lot of money whith that kind of cerificates and also with the credenials. But that is NOT the question of that topic. In any case it would be just nice to give answers to the free press and not just refuse answers just because someone seems them to critical and could dristribut there fine bussines. Thats in the interst of all involved.
Thanks for your wishes.
Raimund
We can only again point you to @JohnnieWalker 's thread (Changes to rules....) and the link he gives to the Cathedral's own website. The newspaper article does not appear to be correct and yes there is a new regulation just for this arm of the Camino Inglés. The webpage given is the official one and is what is in force at the pilgrim office.
Please, we cannot be clearer than this and this is my final response to this thread.
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