Biographical notes

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.

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.

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).

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.