The Holy Year of 2022 ends on Dec 31st and the Door of Mercy closes
Scraping in through the Door of Mercy
What is the Door of Mercy?
The Door of Mercy is a door to the Catedral de Santiago de Compostela that is only open in a Holy Year. In Santiago, a Holy year is when the Saint’s Feast day, July 25th, falls on a Sunday. That happened in 2021, however, the Pope declared that it would remain open for another year. This would enable pilgrims to come to Santiago and walk through the door. The call goes out in the Holy Year,
“Get out of your land, the Apostle Santiago is waiting for you”.
And we did. We walked an official 270 kilometres from Ponferrada to Santiago on the Camino Invierno. It was cold, wet, remote and utterly beautiful. And as of this week, we were included in the 500,000 pilgrims who actually went to the Pilgrims office and collected their compostelas.
And I promise to begin posting and writing my book about it, come January 1st…or 2nd. You can be part of it!
