November 2000 Santiago pilgrims

[Rosina Lila]

Hello you all,
The Santiago Archdiocese reports that 688 pilgrims completed the Camino in
November of 2000 and were awarded the Compostela
.
Of these, 95.5% declared their reason for the pilgrimage to have been: purely
religious (69.5%), religious/cultural (26%) and solely cultural (4.5%)

646 pilgrims walked, 37 went by bicycle and six rode horses.

72 of the pilgrims were over sixty years old and the rest were between the
ages of  thirty and sixty .

41 started out in Le Puy (1,500 kms.), 124 in Saint Jean's (758 kms.), 89 in
Roncesvalles (737 kms.), 43 in Cebreiro (154 kms.), 60 in Sarria (112 kms.),
and 41 in Orense (100 kms.).

348 of the Pilgrims were from Spain, 94 from France, 40 from Germany, 37 from
Brazil, and the rest were from Canada, The United States, Australia, the U.K.
and Holland, in descending numbers.  Pilgrims also came from Japan, Poland,
Israel, Chile and Finland.

It appears that the Archdiocese reports these findings some four months
afterwards, therefore we will probably have the complete data for 2000
sometime in May.

Fond greetings,

Rosina