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Pilgrimage of beautiful prayer - Santiago de Compostela

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People making a pilgrimage

Santiago de Compostela is a pilgrimage place appointed to a world heritage, and is on an approximately northwest edge of the Iberian Peninsula, and it is a destination of a pilgrimage way starting from town of a French world heritage, Vezelay (a sacred place).

Santiago de Compostela is the town which had a slightly mysterious atmosphere full of the people of an earnest Christian every day.

The reason why Santiago de Compostela became the pilgrimage place comes from that the grave of one St. Jacob (Santiago in Spanish, Saint James in English) of the apostle of Jesus Christ was found here.

The opening of the trip to Santiago de Compostela wants to go to the Monte do Gozo (delight hill) by car from an airport.
In this hill which is near to a terminal of a long pilgrimage, you look at a town of Santiago de Compostela distantly and should try to feel be sacredness to give prayer to St. Jacob far.


A legend of St. Jacob you should know


View from the Monte do Gozo

  • Beginning martyrdom of 12 believers
    In about 44, it is become a martyr in Israel by Christ persecution of King Herod.
    The legend shipped over that God sent the dead body with a pupil is left.
    For the later several hundred years, the corpse and the grave were not discovered.
  • Corpse and the discovery of the grave
    In 813, recluse Pelayo was discovered in a forest. His sarcophagus was recognized by the light of the star reflected back and shined.
    And a sarcophagus was distinguished from being a grave of St. Jacob by bishop Teo Domiro, and a pilgrimage began afterward.
  • Fight of Clavijo
    When St. Jacob who sat astride a white horse suddenly led it to an outcome, the victory, in the fight with the Muslim that happened in 844, it is handed down.


Monasterio de San Martin Pinario, St. Jacob

MONASTERIO DE SAN MARTIN PINARIO
The beautiful decoration of temple of
Confucius inside the sculpture

Monasterio de San Martin Pinario is one of the monasteries established for a long time in Santiago.
It is used now as a bishop seat theology school and a dormitory.

Monasterio de San Martin Pinario, the decoration of the baroque of the 17th century is given high altar of the temple of Confucius inside, and it is the gold that is dazzling so as to be blinded.
An image of St. Jacob who wore the attire of the pilgrim is put there.
The figure brought on the divineness which was not different in a legend.
The pilgrim who came goes round to the back of the image and prays.

When mass is over, Botafumeiro, the incense lamp of the expression is rejected by you greatly in a temple of Confucius, and delete the smell of the pilgrim play a role.

Jesse Tree which traced the ancestral genealogy of Christ on the pillar that judger Christ image partitions off an arch lengthwise is carved in Tympanum, (a semicircular small room on a door) of a central arch of a certain Portico de la Gloria in a temple of Confucius.

I put five right fingers under a tree, and a heart seemed to purify a head strangely when a pillar could be accompanied and did the permission and the prayer of the crime.


Pilgrimage attire of St. Jacob

Pilgrimage attire of St. Jacob
Scene of Botafumeiro

There is the shell of the scallop when taking the pilgrimage attire of St. Jacob good.
This seems to come from that a lot of shellfishs stuck to the bottom of a ship when a dead body was shipped over.

In connection with it, I recommend the key ring of the shellfish to a souvenir. St. Jacob image appears when opening a shellfish. It is one article that can worship the figure anytime.

The next blog will introduce the appetite of another Galicia district which is a pleasure of Santiago de Compostela and Italian secret pilgrimage place Loreto.


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