Drew Students on Pilgrimage 2011

France

Spain

What is a pilgrimage?

Spain

Santiago de Compostela

Current day Spain

The Way of Saint James

Saint James Way

El Camino de Santiago

Pilgrims started walking to Santiago de Compostela in the800s

Walking in the footsteps of history

Roman road – over 2000 years old!

Four roads through France bring pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela.

Who is St. James

Saint JamesJames the GreaterSantiago

St. James the PilgrimSantiago Peregrino

St. James the Muslim-killerSantiago Matamoros

… and why is he a saint?

James was fishing with his father and brother John when Jesus called him.

Jesus recruited 12 disciples (students)

I will make you fishers of men

James joins Jesus.

The Disciples travel around with Son of God as he goes about curing people, raising them from the dead and performing miracles like walking on water and turning water into wine.

James

Transfiguration : Christ reveals his divine nature to three disciples.

Raphael ,Transfiguration, 1520

Agony in the Garden: Christ prays to God for strength.This is a turning point in Christ’s life: after this moment the process leading to Christ’s crucifixion begin.

Prado MuseumRogier van der Weyden, Descent for the Cross, 1399

{my absolute favorite Christ painting, you guys will get to see it!!!}

James is beheaded in 42 C.E.

The legend of St. James preaching in Spain….

Returns to Jerusalem and is beheaded.

St. James’s body returns to Spain by an unmanned boat and is buried in a mountain.

*** Miracles are a necessary requirement of a person to be considered for sainthood.

Prado Museum

Scallop shellNo one knows the

origin of the symbol.

1) Ocean side miracles.2) Ancient souvenirs.

St. James the Pilgrim

Milky Way

= person is born.

= souls of the decent head west, to the end of the earth, realm of the dead.

Compus Stellarum (Latin)

Field of Stars

Meanwhile …

Medieval Europe – about 1100 12th century

Hmmm... Now, let me think. Where did I put that guy?

The legend of Pelayo, the shepherd, finding the tomb of St. James.

813 C.E.

St. James the Pilgrim

{Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela}

Santiago Peregrino at the Prado Museum.

The legend of Santiago Matamoros.

St. James the Moor-killer

St. James miraculously appears at the battle of Clavijo in 844.

Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, (1075 – 1700s) 997 original building destroyed by Moors.

Christianity was booming!

Churches were built all along the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela

Saint Sernin, France

12th-13th c. France built 80 Cathedrals and 500 churches.

During the long and arduous journey pilgrims often sang.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Me72NBPRrk&feature=related

The Last Judgment

The Holy right hand of St. Stephen.

Head of St. John the Baptist