sailor knife Gomez - Albacete - SPAIN

Sailor's knife from the Casa Martínez-Gomez de Albacete- Spain with advertising from Santiago de Compostela - Galicia where the Pilgrims of the 60-80s of the last century

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RECUERDO DE SANTIAGO ( de COMPOSTELA ) 

The birth of Santiago, as it is now known, is linked to the (supposed) discovery of the remains of the Apostle Santiago between 820 and 835, the elevation of the religious rank of the remains, the University and, currently, the capital of Santiago. Galicia.

 The figure who became the patron saint of Spain in the 17th century, opposing others as distinguished as Saint Teresa of Jesus or Saint Millán de la Cogolla, and who has been capable of attracting for more than two millennia towards a western point of Europe to thousands of pilgrims from all over the world along the paths of devotion, curiosity, culture, personal search or any other reason, it was not only the fruit of the "fisher of men", as Jesus predicted.  Although his biography is at the apex of a nascent and later massive religion, or of a young European continent that sought to define its identity along paths of divergence-convergence similar to the unfolding-folding of the grooves of the scallop or scallop of the pilgrim.

 According to a medieval tradition, as it appears for the first time in the Concordia de Antealtares (1077), the hermit Pelayo, alerted by night lights that were produced in the Libredón forest, notified the bishop of Iria Flavia, Teodomiro, who discovered the remains of Santiago el Mayor and two of his disciples in the place where Compostela would later rise, a toponym that could come from Campus Stellae (Field of the Star), or more probably from Composita tella (beautiful lands), a euphemism for cemetery.  The discovery prompted Alfonso II, in need of internal cohesion and external support for his kingdom, to make a pilgrimage —announced within his kingdom and abroad— to a new place of pilgrimage for Christianity at a time when the importance of Rome had declined and Jerusalem was not accessible as it was in the hands of the Muslims.