1st Pilgramige on Way of St James
814 AD visited
Tradition relates that in 814, the body of Saint James the Greater was discovered in Compostela and that Alfonso was the first pilgrim to that famous medieval (and modern) shrine after the bishop informed him of the miracle.
Alfonso ordered the construction of a chapel on the site which would gradually become a major site of pilgrimage. The route that the king took to reach the site became the Camino Primitivo, or the Primitive Way, that was considered the oldest and safest pilgrimage route to St. James' shrine throughout the Medieval Period.
This chapel was initially converted into a church in 829 and was later refurbished in the pre-Romanesque style in 899, by the order of Alfonso III. Finally in 1075, under the reign of Alfonso VI, the construction of the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral began.
Authors who see the pilgrimage site to Santiago as being a Reconquistador invention sometimes see St. Pelagius as the forger of the relics, traditions and site
Subjects Who or What visited?
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Alfonso II of Asturias (the Chaste) King of Asturias 7...
Objects To Whom or What was visited?
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Theodemir of Iria Person
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