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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Dear Rosina</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Can you help me to find information on the Portuguese way?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Where it starts? There are "refugios"has in the northen ways?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Bless you.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Jose</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: Rosina Lila </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 9:36 AM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: December pilgrims</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Hello you all,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> The Santiago Archdiocese reports that 349 pilgrims received the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Compostela in December, 2001 (down from 468 the year before.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> 316 walked and 33 bicycled.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> 45 pilgrims started out in Roncesvalles, 45 came from Sarria, 39 hardy</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>souls came from St. Jeans (Can you IMAGINE crossing the Pyrenees in December?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> Wow!), 31 came from Cebreiro, 16 from Tuy, 15 from Leon, 14 from Astorga, 14</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>from Puy, 13 from Oviedo, 12 from Ponferrada, and the rest from sundry</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>points more than 100 kms. away.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> 95.2% of the pilgrims declared a religious motive for their pilgrimage,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>and 4.8% a cultural reason.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> The vast number of the pilgrims were from Spain, but 131 came from twenty</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>countries abroad: 21 from France, 15 from Germany, 14 from Belgium, 13 from</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>the U.S., 10 from Italy, 7 from Canada, 7 from Brazil, 7 from Switzerland, 7</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>from the UK, 6 from Argentina and the rest from various other countries.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> 132 of the pilgrims were under 30 years of age, 206 were between 30 and</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>60 years of age and 11 were over sixty years old.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> 250 of the pilgrims were males and 90 were females.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> The French Way was followed by 284 pilgrims, the Portuguese Way by 33,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>the Northern Way by 17, the Silver Way by 11 and the English Way by 4</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> ****(Does anyone here know what is meant by the English Way?)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> Please tell me if there are further details which you would like to know.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> Fond regards,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Rosina</FONT>
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