The two pilgrims from San Marino on the way to Santiago de Compostela
I pilgrim Giovanni Francesco Ugolini And Andrea Paesini they will leave today for the “Primitive Way” that will take them from Oviedo to Santiago de Compostela after 322 km in 12 stages of approximately 25.8 km per daycrossing Asturias and Galicia.
They will carry a message of peace and “offer peace” their effort.
Theirs I arrive is scheduled for June 3subsequently they will deliver to the Archbishop of Santiago Giuliano Bari a message from the Bishop of San Marino and Montefeltro Andrea Turazzi.
Today, before their departure, they were received by the Secretary of State for Tourism Federico Pedini Amati who thanked them for their commitment and wished them his “good luck”.
“It will be a difficult pilgrimage both physically and mentally – Ugolini and Paesini declared – but at the same time impregnated with intense emotions in an almost unreal atmosphere of Peace for the present day through a world, that of the Way, made up of encounters of different ethnic groups that step by step question themselves about what it is, what can support it and on how it can be comparable to the life that belongs to us and from what obstacles this reserves us ”.
“In addition to the pleasure of receiving pilgrims in the Secretariat – said the Secretary of State Federico Pedini Beloved – for offer them my support and to wish him the warmest good luck for the initiative I take this opportunity to remind you that that of walks, trekking and religious pilgrimages is a tourism that we want to develop tooentering the numerous routes of our territory in the most prestigious international routes “.