- Time of past OR future Camino
- To Santiago + back:
2400 km + 950 nmi
in 160 days
As to the not self-imposed penitential pilgrimages, one has to distinguish between those imposed by the church (mainly on clerics and nobles) and those imposed by courts/judges (relatively rare). The focus is often on Compostela in these forum discussions but here is a list that sheds a different light on it. Hamo de Hethe, bishop of Rochester (1319-1352), matched offense and pilgrimage as follows:
Source: D. Webb, Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in the Medieval West
Source: D. Webb, Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in the Medieval West
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