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The cathedral is the reputed burial place of Saint James the Great, one of the apostles of Jesus Christ. It is also among the remaining churches in the world built over the tomb of an apostle, the other ones being St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, St Thomas Cathedral Basilica in Chennai, India and Basilica of St. John in Izmir, Turkey.
Saint James is the patron saint of Spain and, according to tradition, what are believed to be his remains are held in Santiago de Compostela in Galicia. He is also known as James, son of Zebedee, Saint James the Great, Saint James the Greater, Saint James the Elder, or Saint Jacob, James the Apostle or Santiago.
The St. James the Apostle Cathedral [1] (Spanish: Catedral de Santiago Apóstol) also called Santiago de Veraguas Cathedral [2] is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and is located in the city of Santiago de Veraguas [3] in the Veraguas province in the western part of Panama. It was declared a historical monument in 2014. [4]
The Camino de Santiago (Latin: Peregrinatio Compostellana, lit. ' Pilgrimage of Compostela '; Galician: O Camiño de Santiago), [1] or in English the Way of St. James, is a network of pilgrims' ways or pilgrimages leading to the shrine of the apostle James in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where tradition holds that the remains of the apostle are buried.
Santiago de Compostela, [a] simply Santiago, or Compostela, [3] in the province of A Coruña, is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain.The city has its origin in the shrine of Saint James the Great, now the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, as the destination of the Way of St. James, a leading Catholic pilgrimage route since the 9th century. [4]
The St. James the Apostle Archcathedral Basilica (Polish: Bazylika archikatedralna św. Jakuba Apostoła; German: Basilika und Erzkathedrale St. Jakobus) is a Gothic cathedral located in Szczecin, Poland and seat of the Archdiocese of Szczecin-Kamień. Built in the 12th-14th centuries, it is the second tallest church in Poland, the largest ...
The St. James the Apostle Cathedral [1] (also Santiago de los Caballeros Cathedral; [2] Spanish: Catedral de Santiago Apóstol) is a Catholic church located in the city of Santiago de los Caballeros, the capital of Santiago Province in the Dominican Republic. [3]
The Cathedral Basilica of St. James the Apostle [1] (Spanish: Catedral Basílica de Santiago Apóstol) also called Tunja Cathedral [2] It is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral of Colombia, which is enshrined under the patronage of St. James the Greater (Santiago Apóstol).