Yes, you could perhaps say that it is a bit (or maybe more than a bit) of a show. I'm not sure what you mean by "them" being ashamed of it, though. I was merely attempting to make those not familiar with the use of incense in the Catholic liturgy...
Well said, Rebekah. The Botafumeiro has become something of a secular icon associated with a pilgrim's arrival in Santiago, much in the same way that many now see the Camino experience as "incomplete" unless they continue on to Finisterre and/or...
@Katharina, as a tentative apology for all the cranky ones on here... I see the botafumeiro as a BONUS. If it swings, woh, wonderful. If it doesn't, it doesn't! EXPECTING it to swing is - in my eyes - the problem....The Camino is no Disneyland;)...
I may be in the cranky minority, but I really like it this way. So much of the Camino is utterly random. This oughtta be, too. Programming it cheapens the experience; it turns into another banal tourist performance piece where the Mass is lost...
I've met a few pilgrims.
Apart from the couple who were looking for credencials, one of the residents at Emmaus suddenly declared, I walked the Camino !! 913 Km !! then scuttled off, hmm maybe he did.
A Spanish pilgrim who has just finished the...
Day 4 - - Carcassonne
I am on the Arles Way (Carcassonne variant) !! Also technically on the Piémont Way.
Three decent lifts got me here, the first the short distance from Ginestas to Ventenac-du-Minervois thanks to a vineyard labourer. Was a...
This site is run by Ivar at in Santiago de Compostela.
This site participates in the Amazon Affiliate program, designed to provide a means for Ivar to earn fees by linking to Amazon