sillydoll
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2002 CF: 2004 from Paris: 2006 VF: 2007 CF: 2009 Aragones, Ingles, Finisterre: 2011 X 2 on CF: 2013 'Caracoles': 2014 CF and Ingles 'Caracoles":2015 Logrono-Burgos (Hospitalero San Anton): 2016 La Douay to Aosta/San Gimignano to Rome:
Compostela became again yesterday an impossible city. The high influx of pilgrims and visitors made the Galician capital register completely crowded areas and demonstrations in equal parts, mostly caused by long queues and disorganized access to the cathedral.
A picture that is repeated every weekend, and that this time was exacerbated by high temperatures throughout the day, which at times exceeded thirty degrees.
The area of the Basilica of St. James, especially in the Platerías and A Quintana, was the most crowded, with lines of masses of people trying to enter the Cathedral, and organized groups of pilgrims, who used their stay in the city to attend Mass and then get a family photo for memories.
This was the case of members of the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem, who yesterday completed the last stretch of road from Monte do Gozo, later to hear the Mass in the cathedral before the ceremony of investiture of new Knights held in San Martín Pinario.
The Bishop of Tui-Vigo and Ourense apostolic administrator, Bishop Luis Quintero, was also in Compostela yesterday to preside over a Mass at the Cathedral on the occasion of the pilgrimage of Ourense Diocese.
Thus, several hundred people arrived in buses from various parishes and villages in Ourense to be quoted in the conclusion of the Service.
Also despite the exertion of running over a thousand miles in five days, the Green Berets did not hesitate to collect at seven in the morning at Monte do Gozo to run down to the Obradoiro Square, the goal of their pilgrimage. Next, the 58 military Special Operations Command Alicante attended the Pilgrim's Mass where the Apostle made an invocation. "
http://www.elcorreogallego.es/santiago/ ... ia-550111/
A picture that is repeated every weekend, and that this time was exacerbated by high temperatures throughout the day, which at times exceeded thirty degrees.
The area of the Basilica of St. James, especially in the Platerías and A Quintana, was the most crowded, with lines of masses of people trying to enter the Cathedral, and organized groups of pilgrims, who used their stay in the city to attend Mass and then get a family photo for memories.
This was the case of members of the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem, who yesterday completed the last stretch of road from Monte do Gozo, later to hear the Mass in the cathedral before the ceremony of investiture of new Knights held in San Martín Pinario.
The Bishop of Tui-Vigo and Ourense apostolic administrator, Bishop Luis Quintero, was also in Compostela yesterday to preside over a Mass at the Cathedral on the occasion of the pilgrimage of Ourense Diocese.
Thus, several hundred people arrived in buses from various parishes and villages in Ourense to be quoted in the conclusion of the Service.
Also despite the exertion of running over a thousand miles in five days, the Green Berets did not hesitate to collect at seven in the morning at Monte do Gozo to run down to the Obradoiro Square, the goal of their pilgrimage. Next, the 58 military Special Operations Command Alicante attended the Pilgrim's Mass where the Apostle made an invocation. "
http://www.elcorreogallego.es/santiago/ ... ia-550111/
