Pilgrims gather outside the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain July 25, 2011. Pope Francis wrote a letter to the Santiago archbishop Dec. 31 to mark the opening of the Holy Door at the ...

The Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela emphasized the graces of ... gain an indulgence by visiting through the cathedral’s Holy Door. The beginning of the Jubilee Year of Compostela in Spain ...

now the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. This year is the perfect time to join them: according to an ancient papal edict, if you pass through the cathedral’s holy door in a year when the ...