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A crypt was then dug out and lined with mosaic, and the coffin, either repaired or renewed, was laid therein, some say it was visible to the hordes of pilgrims in the tenth and eleventh centuries. The shrine was then called Santiago de Campostela. Santiago, which means St.

Moreover, to aid the reader, the present volume has been divided into parts, namely: Galicia, the North, and Castile; the latter has been subdivided into western and eastern, making in all four divisions. Galicia. Santiago de Campostela is, from an ecclesiastical point of view, all Galicia.

The church itself was erected to a suffragan of Santiago in 1441. The date of its erection is doubtful, some authors placing it in the twelfth and others in the thirteenth century. Street, whom we can take as an intelligent guide in these matters, calls it a twelfth-century church, contemporaneous with and perhaps even built by the same architect who built that of Santiago de Campostela.

James, and Campostela, field of stars, in memory of the miraculous lights the Bishop of Iria and his companion had perceived whilst sweetly dreaming. The news of the discovery spread abroad with wonderful rapidity. Throughout the middle ages, from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries, Santiago de Campostela was the scene of pilgrimages not to say crusades to the tomb of St. James.