This July 25 celebrates Santiago de Compostela and the world
Apostle whole day. Emotional fiestas are held in their honor, which
days before start with presentations, tours of ancient rúas
called “old town” and many surprises, such as cultural and religious events.
Sure feels beyond what they call “nostalgia” when
We see photos of some friends who live the experience of reaching
Santiago de Compostela precisely on this special day.
But some are wondering what is the importance of Santiago
in the history of religion. We have allowed reproduce a text that has
published while the newspaper La Voz de Galicia, and that explains some
this important holiday, but, of whom it is made:
In the Bible it is commonly referred to him under the name of
James went to the Latin term as Iacobus and led to names like Iago,
Tiago and Santiago (sanctus Iacobus). James of Zebedee and James the Greater was
one of the first disciples to shed his blood and die for Jesus. Member
from a family of fishermen, brother of John the Evangelist -both dubbed
Boanerges (“Sons of Thunder ‘), for their temperaments and one impulsivos-
three closest disciples of Jesus Christ, the Apostle James was not only
present in two of the most important moments in the life of the Christian Messiah
-the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor and prayer in the Garden of Olivos-,
but also part of the restricted group that witnessed his last
miracle, its appearance and raised on the shores of Lake Tiberias.
After the death of Christ, Santiago, passionate and impetuous,
It was part of the initial group of the early church in Jerusalem and,
evangelizing work, he was awarded, according to medieval traditions,
Spanish mainland, specifically the northwest region known
then as Gallaecia. Some theories suggest that the current pattern
Spain reached the land of the north by the uninhabited coast of Portugal.
Others, however, draw your way through the valley of the Ebro and the Roman road
Cantabrian and even have to say that Santiago came to the Peninsula by
Car-Tagena today, where he headed the trip to the western corner
map.
After recruiting the seven apostolic men, who were
bishops ordained in Rome by Saints Peter and received the mission to evangelize
Hispania, the apostle James returned to Jerusalem, according to the texts
apocryphal, for, along with the great disciples of Jesus, accompany the Virgin
on his deathbed.
There was tortured and beheaded in the year 42 per order
Herod Agrippa I, king of Judea.
The assumptions relate that wills before dying, Maria
He was visited by the resurrected Jesus, who asked him to spend his last days
surrounded by the apostles, which worldwide were dispersed.
Your child allowed to be herself, through
miraculous apparitions, which advise the disciples and, thus, the
Virgin is present on a pillar in front of the Apostle Santiago Zaragoza and
the seven, episode today venerated in the Basilica of Our Lady of
Pilar.
It was these seven disciples, tells the legend, which,
after escape taking advantage of the darkness of night, they moved the body
Apostle Santiago in a boat to Galicia, where they arrived through
port of Iria Flavia (today Padron).
The men placed the body of his master in a rock
which he was giving and giving, to become the Holy Sarcophagus for
Lupa visit the queen, who then dominated from its castle land
Compostela where he now sits, and ask the powerful pagan monarch
Santiago land to bury.
The queen accused the newcomers of sin of pride and
He sent them to the court of King Duyos neighbor, enemy of Christianity, which ended
enclosing. According to tradition, an angel-in other stories, a glow
estrellado- bright and seven men freed from captivity and,
flight, a new miracle killed the soldiers running after
them across a bridge. But it was not the only setback with which
They encountered the men.
The oxen which facilitated them the queen to guide carriage
transport the body of Santiago Compostela proved to be wild bulls
which, however, also miraculously they were amansándose alone along
the way.
Lupa, stunned by such episodes, the men surrendered
and he converted to Christianity, he ordered the demolition of all places of worship Celtic
and he gave his private palace to bury the Apostle. Today it stands in its
place the cathedral of Santiago.
It was not until eight centuries later, in 813, when a
hermit called Paio alerted the bishop of Iria Flavia, Teodomiro, strange
and powerful luminosity of a star observed at Mount Libredón (hence
the name of Compostela, Campus Stellae, ‘Campo de la Estrella’). under the
undergrowth at the foot of an oak, an altar with three funerary monuments found.
One of them kept inside a body decapitated head under the
arm. Beside him, a sign read: “Here lies James son of Zebedee and
Salome. “
The religious, by divine revelation, attributed the remains
James Bone, Theodore and Athanasius, two of the disciples of the Apostle
Compostela, and reported the discovery to the Galician-Asturian King Alfonso II
Casto, who, after visiting the place, appointed the Apostle patron of the kingdom and sent
build a church in his honor. It soon spread throughout Europe
Galician existence of the Holy Sepulchre and the Apostle Santiago became the
great symbol of the Spanish Reconquista. The king of Asturias was just the first
the whole tide of pilgrims who came later.
The authenticity of the remains of St. James has
generated, however, few and heated debates and starring
meticulous research. The transfer unlikely -for presumably-the difficulty of the body
Galician disciple of Jesus until soil is just one of the many gaps in a
tradition that moves between historical accuracy and magical legends.
archaeological studies have shown that Compostela was a
pre-Christian necropolis, but they have never practiced research
scientific guarding remains on the walls of the Cathedral, to the
point that some researchers have even attributed such bone relics
Priscillian of Avila, the Spanish bishop accused of heresy.
However, the history of the bones of the Apostle not just
here. Once discovered and honored with a Christian church, relics not
They stood motionless long. According to oral tradition, in the sixteenth century they had
to be hidden to prevent the desecration of the pirates who threatened the
Compostela city after disembarking in the port of A Coruña (May 1589).
The excavations carried out in the late nineteenth century,
They lost track of the remains of Santiago, they revealed the existence of a
-within hiding the apse behind the main altar, but outside the
edículo who built the disciples 99 centimeters long and 30
wide, where they hid and were lost for years, the bones of
Apostle. In 1884 Pope Leo XIII formally recognized this second
. finding
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