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[Rosina Lila]

Hello you all,
One of Santiago's dailies, "La Voz de Galicia"  (www.lavozdegalicia.es)
reports today that the Cathedral has finalized its plans for the next (Holy) year,
to wit:
There will be four pilgrim Masses daily,  at 10:00, 12:00, 17:00 and 17:30
hours on work days.  On Sundays and holidays there will be an extra pilgrims'
Mass at 13:30, and the daily (non-pilgrims') 17:00 hours Mass will be moved, on
those days to  18:00 hours.
The Botafumeiro will be brought out once every day at one or the other of the
pilgrims' Masses  (***** in Santiago two weeks ago someone,  presumably a
Cathedral insider, told me that the Botafumeiro would be brought out daily for
the 12:00 pilgrims' Mass),  and perhaps more than once daily according to
"pilgrims' demands"/
Tourists, meaning guided groups, will only be allowed in the Cathedral only
between 10:45 and 11:20 in the morning and between 13:15  and 16:45  in the
afternoon during work days,  and on Sundays and holidays they will be permitted
only between 14:15 and 17:45.  Further, participants in tourist groups must use
earphones plugged in to their guides (hopefully whispered into) microphone.
Another Santiago daily,  El Correo Gallego  (www.elcorreogallego.es), informs
today that the Santiago Archbishopric has decided to limit the people inside
the Cathedral to a maximum of 3,000 (three thousand) at any one time.  The
newspaper does not report the means to be employed to count the people coming in,
going out, or remaining within.
Warm regards,
Rosina
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