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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-24-06 11:58 AM
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Rent-a-pilgrim: he walks, you pay $2,500
November 24, 2006

He calls himself "the payer-off of promises", but Portuguese computer expert Carlos Gil could just as easily go by the name of "rent-a-pilgrim".

Mr Gil has revived a 700-year-old tradition by hiring himself out to go on pilgrimages for those too infirm, too busy or just too lazy to go themselves.

His twice-yearly pilgrimages to the shrine at Fatima, in central Portugal, are now financed by those who wish to fulfil pledges secretly given in their prayers.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1955827,00.html


Maybe he should start a franchise.

Isn't this the same sort of thing has buying indulgences? What a rip off.





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kurth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-24-06 12:09 PM
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1. Stamps are proof that he walked
Or drove to get them.
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