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2. HISTORY
 In Galicia, accordig to tradition, it was the Apostle Santiago, that the Spanish
people called Jacob, the son of Zebedeo.
 The first years of christendom were awarded to the spanish lands for
preaching the gospel. However a few returned to Jerusalem.

3. RETURN TO JERUSALEM
 When he returned to Palestine in
the year 44, Santiago was tortured
and then beheaded by the King
Herodes. The site went unamed
due to the king´s wishes

4.  His diciples moved his body at night, to the border of the sea, where they
found a boat.
 After the sea, crossing to the Roman port, in the Galician coast, They lay him
in a tomb
 There they buried his body in a “compostum” in the near forest of “Liberum
Donum”, where they built an altar.

5.  In the year 813 the hermit Pelagio saw lights. For this reason this place was
called “Campus Stella”, now Compostela.
 He Informed the king Alfonso II, who went to the place and proclaimed the
Apostle Santiago patron of the kingdom, He built a sanctuary at the site,
which later became the Cathedral

6. Santiago`s cathedral

7. SANTIAGO´S
ROAD
The official event starts with a
repeat of the miracles and
apparations witnessed at the
site, leading to stories and
legends. The pilgrims slowly
but surely finished the
Santiago´s road.

8. Routes of the Santiago`s road

9. OTHER STORY
 Ramiro I, in the battle of Clavijo, won the trops of Abderramán II helped by a
horse rider over a white horse, This turned out to be the Apostle Santiago.
Thereafter the myth that became Legend emerged Reconquista.
 Since then Santiago´s walk exerted a strong attraction over the european
christendom and it was crowded a central pilgrimage which was attended by
kings, princes and saints.

10. •In the s.XII and XIIIth century, time in
which was wrote “El Códice Calixtino”, the
first guide of the pilgrims, the city
reached its maximum potential The Pope
Calixtico II gave Santiago’s Church the
“Jubileo Pleno del Año Santo”.
•Alejandro III declared it everlasting,
becoming Santiago de Compostela in holy
city together with Jerusalen and Rome.
The saint year it´s celebrated whenever the
festivity of the Apostle, on July 25, it falls
on a Sunday.