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San Tiago, or St. James the Apostle, was a Galilean and brother of St. John the Evangelist. He was ordered killed by Herod Agrippa, King of Judea in 41 A.D. A history book of Philip Van Ness says the tomb of St. James was found in Northern Spain in 718 A.D. Thirty years after that, a war between the Spaniards and the Moors broke out.
The Saint James Church massacre was a massacre perpetrated on St James Church of England in South Africa in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa, on 25 July 1993 by four members of the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA). Eleven members of the congregation were killed and 58 wounded.
The Life, Miracles and Martyrdom of St. James the Great: Apostle and Martyr of the Christian Church; The Way of St. James Guide for the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela following St. James' footsteps. Apostle James the Brother of St John the Theologian Orthodox icon and synaxarion; History; St. James the Greater, Apostle at the Christian ...
The Encyclopædia Britannica relates that "James the Lord's brother was a Christian apostle, according to St. Paul, although not one of the original Twelve Apostles." [ 1 ] According to Protestant theologian Philip Schaff , James seems to have taken the place of James the son of Zebedee, after his martyrdom, around 44 AD.
Church of St Peter, Marlow. In 1539 at the Dissolution of the Monasteries, English monks hid the hand in an iron chest in the walls of Reading Abbey. It was dug up again in 1786 by workmen and given to Reading Museum. Around 1845 it was sold to Charles Robert Scott-Murray, who put it in his private chapel at Danesfield House.
Because of his role in northern Spain, James is venerated throughout the Basque Country and Galicia where July 25 is a public holiday. [3] A traditional pilgrimage called the Way of St James (Camino de Santiago) is held that day, bringing people to the town of Santiago de Compostela and the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral. It is the town's ...
Santiago Apostol Parish Church, commonly known as Betis Church, is a Baroque-style church located in the Betis District of Guagua in Pampanga, Philippines under the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Fernando. The church was established in 1607 and dedicated to Saint James the Greater, the Apostle.
The church's facade is divided by a frieze that continues around the adjoining bell tower. It has bas reliefs of leaves and flowers and a sculpted image of St. James depicted as a Santiago Matamoros (Saint James the Moor-slayer) in a central niche of the upper story. The relief of Saint James is no longer the