![]() ![]() ![]() It bears a shell for symbol or it could be the pilgrim’s primary symbol for this journey. Such a book became a fundamental comfort to travellers for centuries it traces the routes that converged, coming from all of Europe, maps down the pilgrims’ way, takes them through the sedimentation of history and legend, mysticism and worship, and to the sepulchre of the Saint. In a difficult period for relations with the advancing Arabian culture, Christianity fostered the worship of Saint James and more frequent pilgrimages to strengthen the bulwark of a religion and followers against the spread of Islamic doctrines.ĭuring the first half of the 12th.century, Aymerico Picaud, a French monk - maybe a Cluriac monk - wrote the “Liber Sancti Jacobi”, also known as the Callistine Code (Codex Calixtinus), the pilgrim’s guide, and authentic historical treasure, now kept in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. A premonitory dream, or rather, the apparition of Saint James inviting him to find the sepulchre, led the hermit to discover the tomb thanks to the help of Theodore, the bishop of Iria Flavia. It became the “field of the star”, campus stellae the etymology of Compostela is therefore obvious. Sometime around the year 813, Pelagius the hermit saw an illuminating star every night, as if it were a signal, a field (campo). ![]() century, prove the existence of the sepulchre of Saint James in Spain. History and legend merge in time but some texts, dating back as far as the 7th and 8th. A few Disciples took James’ mortal remains away to put them on a boat that went to sea and guided by an angel”, navigated “till it reached the Iberian shores of Iria Flavia, now known as Padrón. King Herod Agrippa condemned him to martyrdom in the year 44. Tradition has it that the apostle James the Elder, brother of John the Evangelist, travelled to western Europe after Christ’s death in order to spread the Gospel in the Iberian peninsula, from the North to Galicia once his mission was accomplished, he went back to Jerusalem. ![]()
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