"(the centuries-old symbol of the pilgrimage to Santiago). Recent recipients are: The Compostela Group of Universities has the following members: Associated members: Mutual members: Compostela Group of Universities The Compostela Group of Universities (CGU) is an international non-profit association, that promotes and executes collaboration projects between institutions of higher education. CGU currently has 67 full members, 2 associate members and 9 mutual membership agreements with institutions from 27 different countries. In 1993, the University of Santiago de Compostela began initiating contact with other institutions in higher education situated along the Way of St. James. Its aim was to establish a"
"by Pope Clement VIII in St. Peter's Basilica on June 18, 1600. He died in Rome on August 27, 1600. He was initially buried in San Lorenzo in Lucina. Later, according to the terms of his will, his remains were transferred provisionally to the hermitage of Villaguer in Toro, Zamora. Finally, he was buried in the convent of the Discalced Carmelites in Toro. Pedro de Deza Pedro de Deza (1520–1600) was a Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal and bishop. Pedro de Deza was born in Seville on March 26, 1520, the son of Antonio de Deza and Beatriz de Portugal. He"
"evangelisation in Hispania. The suggestion began to be made from the 9th century that, as well as evangelizing in Iberia, James' body was brought to and is buried in Compostela. No earlier tradition places the burial of St. James in Spain. A rival tradition places the relics of the apostle in the church of St. Saturnin at Toulouse; if any physical relics were ever involved, they might plausibly have been divided between the two. The tradition of Saint James' burial in Compostela was not unanimously accepted, and numerous modern scholars, following Louis Duchesne and T. E. Kendrick, reject it. (According"
"including the ancient Benedictine abbey of San Claudio, in Galicia. The town of San Claudio, near Oviedo, takes its name from this group of martyrs. Their relics were translated several times in succeeding centuries. King Ferdinand I of Castile transported some of their relics to the church of San Isidoro in León. In 1173, the relics were translated to a new church dedicated to the three martyrs. This church was destroyed in 1834 and the relics were moved to the church of San Marcelo, dedicated to their presumed father. Their feast day is celebrated in Spain and Portugal on October"
"Apostle: During the travel he was guided at night by the Milky Way, which from then on acquired the name of ""Camino de Santiago"". The founding of the alleged St. James tomb was a formidable political success for the Kingdom of Asturias: Now Asturias could claim the honour of having the body of one of the apostles of Jesus, a privilege shared only with Asia (Ephesus) where John the Apostle was buried, and Rome, where the bodies of Saint Peter and Saint Paul rested. As of the early 12th century, Santiago de Compostela grew to become one of the three"
"buried in the dedicated to King of France Louis IX ""The Saint"" as well as the cloister in which its located. Along with the Polanco branch of Burgos, one more branch of the Polancos from Santillana settled in (out of which the billionaire entrepreneur descends) and another in . Gonzalo Lopez de Polanco had at least four sons: Alfonso (c.1450- 1491) who married his cousin Constanza Maluenda de Castro (c. 1450-1520), Gonzalo ""the young one"" Lopez Polanco (c. 1450- 1505) who married Leonor de Miranda (c.1450-1503), Fernando de Polanco who married Contanza de Guevara Tellez de Castilla, niece of the"
"province of A Coruña, Spain, on 15 July, 1885. She is buried in the ""Panteón de Galegos Ilustres"", a pantheon (mausoleum) in the Convent of San Domingos de Bonaval in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Rosalia de Castro is today one of the unquestionable poet laureates of Galicia (Spain). Highly educated, expected to speak and write in Spanish only, she took the bold, unconventional step of writing her early poems in the Galician language. Her defiance earned her the contempt and spite of many that deemed Galician as a Spanish dialect fit ""only for the illiterate and the churlish"". However, Rosalía's"
"in as residence, built by merchant Diego Perez de Maluenda, nephew of Alfonso Polanco and Constanza de Maluenda, and are buried in the Chapel of the Holy Cross in the Basilica of the Holy Blood. In Antwerp, Antonio de Polanco and his relatives had his palace in in the old town of the city. In Rouen, the family members had the . The branch of the Polanco family of Burgos that resided in Seville and Cadiz also had the Capilla de los Burgaleses in the in Seville. Burgos later became an important city in the commerce of the Americas, in"
"six votive lamps. The 12th-century ""Historia Compostelana"" commissioned by bishop Diego Gelmírez provides a summary of the legend of St. James, as it was believed at Compostela. Two propositions are central to it: first, that St. James preached the gospel in Iberia, as well as in the Holy Land; second, that after his martyrdom at the hands of Herod Agrippa, his disciples carried his body by sea to Iberia, where they landed at Padrón on the coast of Galicia, then took it inland for burial at Santiago de Compostela. The translation of his relics from Judea to Galicia in the"
"of Diocletian or of Valerian when they were imprisoned and forced to decide between renouncing the faith or leaving the army. Their legend states that they were tortured and finally decapitated on the banks of the Cidacos River outside of Calahorra, which became the site of the actual cathedral of the city and explains its strange location beyond the city walls. The heads of these saints are said to have floated to Santander aboard a boat made of stone. A community of monks who lived in that city became custodians of these holy relics. According to Prudentius, the brothers Emeterius"
"even with a poem wherein the monument was acclaimed 'the Eighth Wonder of the World'. Cardinal Astorga y Céspedes died in 1734 in Madrid and is buried at the feet of ""El Transparente"" in the cathedral of Toledo. During his whole career, Bishop De Astorga y Céspedes promoted the devotion to Our Lady of Europe, the devotion title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in Gibraltar. <br> Diego de Astorga y Céspedes Diego de Astorga y Céspedes (17 October 1663 – 9 February 1734) was a Spanish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He also served as Bishop of Barcelona,"
"region-specific cults, such as Saint Eulalia in Oviedo and Saint Aemilian in Castile. After the centre of Asturian political power moved from Oviedo to León in 910, Compostela became more politically relevant, and several kings of Galicia and of León were acclaimed by the Galician noblemen and crowned and anointed by the local bishop at the cathedral, among them Ordoño IV in 958, Bermudo II in 982, and Alfonso VII in 1111, by which time Compostela had become capital of the Kingdom of Galicia. Later, 12th-century kings were also sepulchered in the cathedral, namely Fernando II and Alfonso IX, last"
"Ordoño IV in 958, Bermudo II in 982, and Alfonso VII in 1111, by which time Compostela had become capital of the Kingdom of Galicia. Later, 12th-century kings were also sepulchered in the cathedral, namely Fernando II and Alfonso IX, last of the Kings of León and Galicia before both kingdoms were united with the Kingdom of Castile. According to some authors, by the middle years of the 11th century the site had already become a pan-European place of peregrination, while others maintain that the cult to Saint James was before 11–12th centuries an essentially Galician affair, supported by Asturian"
"to Santo Domingo, but bad weather forced him to land in Cuba, where he died from his injuries. Later, his only son, Archbishop Rodrigo de Bastidas y Rodriguez de Romera, moved his remains to Santo Domingo where he is interred along with his wife and son at The Cathedral of Santa María la Menor in the Colonial Zone of Santo Domingo, the oldest cathedral in the Americas. Rodrigo de Bastidas Rodrigo de Bastidas (; Triana, Seville, Andalusia, c. 1465 – Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, 28 July 1527) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who mapped the northern coast of South"
"Roman martyrology, but Florentina is without doubt the correct form. An important part of her bones was buried in the cathedral of Murcia (Spain), where are venerated nowadays. However, the biggest part of her remains are preserved in Berzocana (Spain), where she is venerated as well as her brother Fulgentius. Saint Florentina Saint Florentina (died ca. 612) is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. Born towards the middle of the sixth century in Cartagena, Hispania, she and her family were actively engaged in furthering the best interests of Christianity. Florentina was the sister of three Iberian bishops in"
"Cabral, Afonso de Albuquerque, Nuno Álvares Pereira, Vasco da Gama and Henry the Navigator. Church of Santa Engrácia The Church of Santa Engrácia (, ) is a 17th-century monument in Lisbon, Portugal. Originally a church, in the 20th century it was converted into the National Pantheon (""Panteão Nacional"", ), in which important Portuguese personalities are buried. It is located in the Alfama neighborhood, close to another important Lisbon monument, the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora. The current building of the Church of Santa Engrácia substituted previous churches dedicated to a martyr of the city of Braga, Saint Engrácia. The"
"the result of the reforms ordered by this archbishop of Compostela, who held office between 1685 and 1715. Like many Spanish monasteries, it was closed in the nineteenth century as part of the Ecclesiastical confiscations of Mendizábal. The church, built in Gothic and Renaissance style, is not currently open for worship. It houses the Pantheon of Illustrious Galicians and is a concert venue. It was built according to the canons of Gothic naves Dominican with light and airy, with the focus of services moved from the apse towards the pulpit located in the crossing. In this temple were buried the"
"Santiago (name) Santiago, (also San Iago, San Tiago, Santyago, Sant-Yago, San Thiago) is a Spanish name that derives from the Hebrew name Jacob (""Ya'akov"") via ""Sant Iago"", ""Sant Yago"", ""Santo Iago"", or ""Santo Yago"", first used to denote Saint James the Great, the brother of John the Apostle. It was also the tradition that Saint James (Santiago) had travelled to the Iberian Peninsula during his life and was buried there. The name is also complicated in Spanish in that Jaime and Jacobo are modern versions of James. Variants of Santiago include Iago (a common Galician language name), and Thiago or"
"of Santiago de Compostela, in June, and by Ferdinand II in July. In 1185 Ferdinand married for the third time to Urraca López de Haro (daughter of Lope Díaz, lord of Biscay, Nájera and Haro), who was his mistress since 1180. Urraca tried in vain to have Alfonso IX, first son of Ferdinand II, declared illegitimate, to favour her son Sancho. Ferdinand II died in 1188 at Benavente, while returning from a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. He was buried in the cathedral of Compostela. In 1230 Forty two years after Ferdinand II's death his namesake grandson Ferdinand III of"
"Columba of Spain Saint Columba of Spain, or ""Columba of Cordova (Cordoba)"", was a nun who was born in Cordoba, Spain and martyred around 853 by the Moors. She was a nun at the monastery at Tabanos, near Cordoba, where it is related that she was beheaded by the Moors in 853. Her body is said to have been thrown into the Guadalquivir, but was rescued by the Christians. Her relics were kept and venerated in Old Castile at two churches, the priory of St. Columba and the royal Abbey of Our Lady at Nájera. Veneration of ""Saint Comba"" in"
"Frenchman Bérenger de Landore, treacherously executed the counselors of the city in his castle of ""A Rocha Forte"" (""the strong rock, castle""), after inviting them for talks. Santiago de Compostela was captured and sacked by the French during the Napoleonic Wars; as a result, the remains attributed to the apostle were lost for near a century, hidden inside a cist in the crypts of the cathedral of the city. The excavations conducted in the cathedral during the 19th and 20th centuries uncovered a Roman ""cella memoriae"" or martyrium, around which grew a small cemetery in Roman and Suevi times which"
"had James' body placed in a building previously dedicated to the Roman gods. This tradition also states that three of these disciples, Torquatus, Athanasius (a name that does not correspond to the usual list of names of these seven name), and Ctesiphon, were buried with James. There are statues of all seven saints, in addition one of Saint Peter, at the Cathedral of Guadix. Pope John Paul II, during his first trip to Spain in 1982, remarked that Spain ""was conquered for the faith by the missionary zeal of the Seven Apostolic Men."" Saint Euphrasius' relics were taken to Santa"
"See during the Middle Ages until Alfonso II of Asturias moved it to Compostela after the foundation of Santiago's sepulcher. In modern days, the town is the last stop on the Portuguese Way path of the Camino de Santiago. When the name ""Padrón"" became more popular, ""Iria Flavia"" was consigned to a small hamlet (the current parish). According to tradition, it was in Iria Flavia that Apostle Saint James first preached during his stay in Hispania. Soon after his death that his disciples Theodore and Athanasius brought his head and his body to Iria from Jerusalem in a stone boat."
"of Afonso of Portugal, Lord of Portalegre and Violante Manuel, granddaughter of King Ferdinand III of Castile and León. There were no children from this marriage. His second wife was, Isabel Ponce de Leon, daughter of Pedro Ponce de Leon, Lord of Cangas and Tineo, and his wife, Sancha Gil de Braganza. Their children were: From his mistress, Aldonza Lorenzo de Valladares were born: At his death, the body of Pedro Fernandez de Castro was taken to Galicia and buried in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. His remains were buried in the choir of the Cathedral. During 19th century"
"bodies of the first group were interred by St. Sebastian and Pope Melchiades (Miltiades) at the fourth milestone on the Via Labicana, in a sandpit where there rested the remains of other executed Christians. It is unclear where the names of the second group actually come from. The tradition states that Melchiades asked that the saints be commemorated as Claudius, Nicostratus, Simpronian, and Castorius. These same names actually are identical to names shared by converts of Polycarp the priest, in the legend of St. Sebastian. According to the ""Catholic Encyclopedia"", however, ""this report has no historic foundation. It is merely"
"Périgueux, had their own home grown saint while others, most notably Santiago de Compostela, claimed the remains and the patronage of a powerful saint, in this case one of the Twelve Apostles. Santiago de Compostela, located near Galicia (present day Spain) became one of the most important pilgrimage destinations in Europe. Most of the pilgrims travelled the Way of St. James on foot, many of them barefooted as a sign of penance. They moved along one of the four main routes that passed through France, congregating for the journey at Jumièges, Paris, Vézelay, Cluny, Arles and St. Gall in Switzerland."
"consecration of the central cupolas at the Basílica del Pilar. He died at the Archbishop's Palace in Santiago de Compostela, and is interred in the Pantheon of Archbishops at the Metropolitan Cathedral. Miguel García Cuesta Miguel García Cuesta (6 October 1803 in Macotera – 18 April 1873 in Santiago de Compostela) was a Professor at the University of Salamanca, Bishop of Jaca (1848), Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela (1851), Senator for Life (1851) and Cardinal (1861). In 1815, at the age of twelve, he left his native village with his uncle, who was the Chaplain of the Sanctuary of the"
"mosaics illustrating the saints. What are said to be their skulls are venerated in the convent of the Clares in Madrid, where they have been since 1581, the gift of Maria, daughter of Emperor Charles V. They had previously been removed from Rome to Bremen in the tenth century, and thence to Bamberg. Other skulls said to be theirs were discovered in 1334 by Burchard Grelle, Archbishop of Bremen. He ""personally 'miraculously' retrieved the relics of the holy physicians Cosmas and Damian, which were allegedly immured and forgotten in the choir of the Bremen Cathedral. In celebration of the retrieval"
"has been dated to 1128. The historian Richard A. Fletcher has noted how well-travelled and well-connected Pedro was for a nobleman of his time: ""His upbringing at the peripatetic court of Alfonso VI must have familiarized him with most corners of the kingdom of León-Castile; he had spent some time in captivity in Aragon; [and] he numbered among his acquaintances the princes of southern France."" He was buried in the cathedral of Compostela, where his tomb, surmounted by an effigy carved in stone, still lies in the ""Chapel of Relics"". In the central plaza of Compostela, he had once had"
"Here, the first three bishops of Trier, Eucharius, Valerius and Maternus are buried alongside the apostle Saint Matthias. This is the only tomb of an apostle to be located in Europe north of the Alps, thus making Trier together with Rome in Italy (burial place of St. Peter the apostle) and Santiago de Compostela in Spain (tomb of St. James) one of three major places of pilgrimage in Europe for Catholics. In 882, Trier was sacked by the Vikings, who burnt most churches and abbeys. This was the end of the systematically built Roman Trier. Medieval legend, recorded in 1105"
"de Compostela in Galicia. (The name ""Santiago"" is the local evolution of Vulgar Latin ""Sanctu Iacobu"", ""Saint James"".) The traditional pilgrimage to the grave of the saint, known as the ""Way of St. James"", has been the most popular pilgrimage for Western European Catholics from the Early Middle Ages onwards, although its modern revival and popularity stems from Walter Starkie's 1957 book, ""The Road to Santiago. The Pilgrims of St. James"". Some 237,886 pilgrims registered in 2014 as having completed the final 100 km walk (200 km by bicycle) to Santiago to qualify for a Compostela. When 25 July falls"
"of the caves, where supposedly it had been hidden. It prompted the construction of a chapel of Santa María de las Cuevas to house the venerated icon. In the 15th century, the archbishop of Seville, aided by the noble family of Medina, helped found a Franciscan monastery at the site. Later constructions were patronized by don Perafán de Ribera (who built the Casa de Pilatos). In the 15th century, monks of the cloistered order of Saint Bruno were housed in the monastery. Christopher Columbus' remains were first interred at Valladolid, then at the Monastery of the Cartuja by the will"
"the world. Seville Cathedral was the site of the baptism of Infant Juan of Aragon in 1478, only son of the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile. Its royal chapel holds the remains of the city's conqueror Ferdinand III of Castile, his son and heir Alfonso the Wise and their descendant king Peter the Cruel. The funerary monuments for cardinals Juan de Cervantes and Pedro González de Mendoza Quiñones are located among its chapels. Christopher Columbus and his son Diego are also buried in the cathedral. The Archbishop's Palace is located on the northeastern side"