According to the legend, the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, a town located in the Spanish province of Galicia, houses the relics of one of the Holy Apostles of Christ, St. James (Santiago in Spanish), who died in 44 AD in Jerusalem.
In the ninth century, King Alfonso II of Asturia had built a small church on the site of the tomb, discovered in 819 AD. This was destroyed in 997 by the Moorish army of al-Mansur, but the relics of the Apostle remai...
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