[Gocamino] [saintjames] El Camino items

Tue Jan 25 06:46:03 PST 2011

Hi Sil,
>From what I know after the costs to complete and outfit the building by the horses fountain in Platerias and to finish the renovations to the "Casa del Dean" where the pilgrims' office is located, are calculated, a decision will be made about the charges in the albergues.  There appears to be a strong sentiment that charging a pilgrim to stay in an albergue "goes against the spirit". The alternative word for albergue used in Spain is "refugio" (refuge) and charging some one for it is an oxymoron, both linguistically and in essence.
The albergues run by the Cistersian nuns in Santo domingo de la Calzada and so many other towns in the Camino were overflowing throughout 2010 and they subsisted in "donativos" throughout. That seems to be the argument.
Hugs!
Rosina

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From: Sil <sillydoll at gmail.com>
To: saintjames <saintjames at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, Jan 25, 2011 1:12 am
Subject: Re: [saintjames] El Camino items

Thanks Rosina - always sharing snippets of news with your fellow peregrinos.
he Galcian albergues upped the charge from 3 euros to 6 euros a couple of
ears ago.  Are they thinking of going back to 3 euro or will they go back
o being donativo albergues?

On 25 January 2011 02:52, Rosina <Blaroli at aol.com> wrote:
>

 Hello you all,
 Being that the Camino traffic is slow, and that I'm confined home by a
 ghastly flu, and by an outside temperature in New York City of about 5F (20
 BELOW zero centigrade?), I thought I'd pass on some Camino/Santiago news:
 Sivia Rozas developed and administered (brilliantly, as we all must agree)
 the Press and Commnications office of the Santiago Archdiocese since 2003. A
 Galician, she was born in Lugo in 1975; studied journalism in USC
 (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), graduated summa cum laude
 therefrom and then obtained a graduate degree in Theology from the
 (gorgeous) Pontifical university in Salamanca. After being offered every
 prestigious press post throughout Spain she has just informed that she will
 join the Hijas de Jesus religious order seeking to become a contemplative
 nun. On the 29th of this month she will begin her novitiate at the Berraspe
 convent/college in Madrid. Ms Rozas says that the closing of the Holy Door
 coincides with the change in her life: "One stage closes to begin another;
 one has to look for one's door and find the key to it in the heart". She
 adds "In life it is necessary to find out what one wants, what is happening
 in one's soul, how to focus one's existence in the short time of living, and
 how to find contentment in one's interior day by day existance". The
 religious order that she has chosen precludes communication with the
 outside. (Sigh!) I have read many of the articles that she wrote, and, for
 one, I sure wish that she had written a book before going into silence.

 During the 2010 Holy Year there was a small alms collection box at the
 Cathedral marked "for ether upkeep and maintenance of the church building";
 apparently the 10 million or so people who visited the Cathedral were not
 niggardly and the funds donated have been, and will continue to be, used in
 the creation and rehabilitation of many albergues and Camino-related
 edifices and facilities. A portion of those funds (about 1.5 million Euro)s
 will be used for the exhibitions and cultural celebrations that will
 accompany next April's observance of the 800th anniversary of the
 consecration of the Santiago Cathedral by Alfonso IX. The building by the
 horses' fountain in Platerias is being entirely rebuilt and will house the
 Pilgrims' Museum, Special Camino photographic and artistic exhibitions, and
 will handle the overflow of Pilgrims from the Pilgrims' office. Because of
 the momentous celebrations of the eight hundredth anniversary, the number of
 pilgrims and visitors to Santiago this year is not expected to diminish
 significantly. Also, the discontinuance of the 3 Euros charge at the
 non-private albergues is being contemplated.

 Pilgrims who are members of the Archconfraternity, or who have visited the
 ever-helpful Archconfraternity office in Quintana square, will surely
 remember its ever-helpful secretary, Susana. A psychologist by profession,
 and the Archconfraternity's "secretary" (administrator) by choice, she
 married last April and expects to become a mother next April.
 And so it goes.
 Also, the initial steps to form the first Santiago Confraternity in the
 United States are proceeding apace.
 Hugs!
 Rosina

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