These two elements appear to have been dropped from the compostela in the mid-C18th, and the text as we now have it is little changed since then. Originally hand-written and sealed, with slips of paper attesting confession and communion pasted on, it became in the C17th (printing reached Galicia very late) a printed document which included the confirmation of confession and communion. The CSJ's article on the Compostela says, "Confession and communion remained essential to the granting of the certificate of having completed the pilgrimage, first called la autentica. This made the compostellana a target for forgers who sold them to pilgrims on both sides of the Pyrenees. In some countries, if you could prove that you had been to Santiago for 3 successive years, you were exempt from paying taxes for life. Although paper was introduced in Spain in the 10th C (the Muslims prepared paper from silk, cotton, rags and wood) it wasn't readily available until two hundred years later and I doubt pilgrims would have been given some sort of written certificate.
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