Impressive Botafumeiro at Mass at the Cathedral
9 Priests concelebrating Mass
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- Our apartment
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- The view from the living room
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- Looking down 6 flights of stairs
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- Afternoon lighting on the Cathedral- awesome!
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- Mass
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- It takes 8 Monks to swing the botafumeiro
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- The pulley mechanism
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- Vicki walking down a narrow Old Town alley
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- First course of our pilgrims dinner
Today was much more relaxed. We had planned to go to the morning English Mass, but ended up in the wrong place, and participated in an Italian Mass. There were 9 priests concelebrating, and 2 were actively taking pictures of everything going on. Since there were several tourist groups, I figured they were with them. That also gave me hope that we would get to see the Botafumeiro.
Right after Communion, the 8 monks came in and headed to unfasten the ropes. It is quite an impressive experience!
Our apartment here has good news and bad news- the bad news is it is on the 6th floor with no elevator. The good news is it’s a great place in a great location with great views!
Tomorrow we go to FInisterra and Muxia- on a bus ? as tourists! Yes we are going to be total slugs.