сряда, 13 юли 2016 г.

The Pilgrims way

A thousand year old route
Santiago was one or Jesus Christi's twelve apostiles who,  according to Christian tradition,  preched in Hispania before being decapitated in Jerusalem in 44 AD.  Legent has it that his body was taken in boat to the end of the western world,  where he was buried.

Eight centuries later,  araound 812,  a hermit saw miraculous shining lights and drawing near,  found a cemetery with the tomb of the Apostle.in what today is Compostela. The Asturian King Alfonso II the Chaste went to Compostela from Oviedo to visit the tomb end this was the beginning of the Christian pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela which were to leave a profound mark on the economic, religious, political and social development of Spanish kingdoms.
In a few decades the roads were filled with piligrims and Compostela became a site of piligrimage as important as Rome and Jerusalem. Its expansion was supported by all authorites as reinforcement of the recenty-begin reconquest of Spain againt the Muslim emirate, later the Caliphare of Cordoba. King Sancho III the Elder of Pamplona strongly promoted the Way at the beginning of the second millennium to consolidate a route for the piligrims who travelled south from Pamplona to Lagrono and Najera.  He granted special charters.to towns and had bridges and hospitals built along the route. The nambers of piligrims increased and the Way reached is peak in the 12th century.
Onslaughts of the plague and religious divisions, among other causes,  resulted in a gradual decline of pilgrimages up to the late 20th century, in the 1980s the Way to St. James experienced a resurgence,  recovering its medieval vigour,  thanks to the work of Jacobean associations, local authorities and Pope John Paul II.

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