Jubilee Year coins will be available to pilgrims who visit a Diocese of Fargo Jubilee Pilgrimage Site.
For more information about the Jubilee visit the Jubilee page. This page contains a list of all the Jubilee Pilgrimage Sites in the Diocese of Fargo.
The following explanation of the Pilgrim Coins is available as a printable PDF document or e-book (EPUB format) on the Pilgrim Guide page.
At each site you may be able to collect a special commemorative coin.
The idea of collecting tokens is not new. In the Middle Ages, pilgrims set out on their destination on foot and had papers documenting them as pilgrims. When they reached their destination, such as the Holy Land, Canterbury, England or Santiago, Spain they picked up a pilgrim badge. For example, in Santiago one could get a shell and in Canterbury, at the site of St. Thomas Becket’s martyrdom, the pilgrim got a badge with an image of St. Thomas along with four knights around him.
In this Jubilee year, you can pick up a commemorative coin at each site. Each Jubilee Site in the Diocese of Fargo designed their own coin with images and text that are unique to them. If you make a pilgrimage to all the sites, you can obtain a final coin from the Diocese of Fargo (shown below). At each location, there is a Jubilee poster with a QR code to register your visit. Again, you must register at each location you visit to receive the Diocese of Fargo coin. Be sure to pick up the brochure at the site, which gives a brief description of each coin.