<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Franklin Gothic Medium" LANG="0">Hello you all,<BR>
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:<BR>
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.<BR>
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"/<BR>
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. <BR>
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.<BR>
Warm regards,<BR>
Rosina</FONT></HTML>