[Gocamino] [saintjames] Re:Two Sellos per Etapa for a Compostela

[blaroli at aol.com]

Hello you all,
There already is a certificate of visit other than a Compostela that anyone in Santiago can get from the Pilgrims' Office.  Once when I couldn't complete the pilgrimage I got one, and friends of mine who went to Santiago from New York only for the Thanksgiving weekend also got one.  It is actually a good-looking certificate.
What seems to be desirable, in view of the large numbers of visitors expected, is that certificates of visit be given out by the tourist information offices, and not by the unconscionably overworked and besieged people at the Pilgrims' Office.
When one visit Jerusalem one can get a statement of visit from the tourist offices there, but if one want to get a pilgrim's certificate from the Holy Sepulchre Church one must go to Mass and receive communion; in that church all Christians may do so.  Somehow Santiago pilgrims tend to forget, or ignore, the fact that the Compostela is essentially a religious document.

The "two seals" per stage mostly consist of the albergue's seal and another one from the town, preferably from a church or "i" office.

I, for one, do not understand why people who find the decisions of those who oversee the Camino objectionable insist on having things their way.  After all, demonstrably, thousands and thousands of others, in ever-increasing numbers,  have no problem with such decisions; and there are so many other possible pilgrimages that can be made free from such infrastructure, like Lourdes, Fatima, Llhasa, etc.
Oh, well!

Hugs!

Rosina 


-----Original Message-----
From: Rebekah Scott <rebrites at yahoo.com>
To: saintjames at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 7:34 am
Subject: [saintjames] Re:Two Sellos per Etapa for a Compostela






It´s time to get another kind of Compostela going. Let
the traditional religous-based pilgrims have the old
one, and let another, secular enterprise give the
other, secular pilgrims a different document...
something very beautifully designed and appealing.
Maybe the Junta or Xacobeo or some other group could
fill this vacuum. 

A good capitalist could provide different types of
certificates for all the many kinds of pilgrims there
are. He could very carefully check all the credentials
to screen out the obvious cheaters, and stick to some
stringent standards of whom gets which certificate.
(He´d have to be pretty hard-nosed sometimes!) 

And he-she could make it pay by also providing
value-added services, like laminating the
certificates, custom-framing them along with their
credentials, making them into plaques, and mailing
them home so pilgs will have their certificate waiting
when they get there. 

Too bad I am not in Santiago, and I am not a
business-woman. Otherwise I would take this on myself.
It would seem a cool way to meet a lot of really nice
people, and serve the Camino. 

Rebekah

Rebekah Scott 
www.moratinoslife.blogspot.com


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