Who is this James who invited you to go to meet him in Santiago de Compostela ?
The history :
Sent to bring Gospel over the world :
He is one of the twelve apostles ; Zébédée's son, John's brother, first called with him by Jesus.
He was sent by the Christ to bring the good news of Gospel in the world. James was sent to convert people of Spain.
A martyr :
Back to Palestine, he realised so many conversions that king Herode-Agripa 1 became furious. James condemned to death and was decapitated around year 42 after J.C.
The legend :
His friends took his remains, put them in a small boat that floated through Mediteraneen sea guided by an angel. Gibraltar strait passed, the boat stopped and ran aground on Gallice coasts in Iria harbour ( now called Padron).
The gravediscovery :
In 814, Théodomir, bishop, and Pelage, hermit, attracted by lights in the sky over a hidden place, made searches and found the grave of a man with his head beside James' grave. The King Alphonse II, the chaste built the first basilica on this place.
