Spain: Santiago pilgrims on the road to the "rooster church"

A town of northern Spain Rioja, called the Santo Domingo de La Calzada, is to go to Santiago on a pilgrimage of the classic. There is a movie called THE WAY (Chinese name is ignorant youth translated into "Napoleon road") can have a look. Just under a point of light rain, water. Everywhere the signs, road, ground, road signs. To indicate the direction of pilgrimage to the people.

Pilgrimage to Santiago

A sign of the scallop in shell type, is the symbol of Santiago road. This sign means "all roads lead to Rome", or is the same, the final destination is Santiago. -- but this can not seem to be wrong, from the foot of, arrive from all sides.

There are several famous Santiago: the capital of the Republic of Chile, the largest city -- the fourth largest city in South America called the Santiago, the full name is the full name of the Santiago de Chile; Santiago (San Diego County), the United States Southern California largest seaside city; eastern Cuba, the country's second largest city and the second largest port of Santiago; Argentina there is a Santiago - Del Estero province; Panama the third largest city of Santiago; the Republic of Dominica's second largest city of Santiago; in addition to these countries said city, there are all kinds of Santiago River, Santiago hill, Fort Santiago, Santiago village......

Walking in Santiago are mostly devout religious believers

You say the name "Santiago" is a sweet pastry? People all over the world are used. But Spain's Santiago, is very significant, meaningful, even when the world so much "brother" conflict with each other, it will become an independent school. Not only has the remarkable significance in religion, in the middle is also very famous tour pal. There is a book called "the road to Santiago medieval art and ritual" very accurate introduced Spanish not general in Santiago, and the road to Santiago.

"-- in the Christian world has three holy places: Jerusalem, Rome and Santiago in spain. Santiago pilgrimage originated 900 years ago. The legend of Jesus one of the twelve disciples of St. James (Saint James, called Santiago, in Spanish, Santiago, also is the Chinese version of the Bible in the St. James) people after the death of his remains from Jerusalem to the Galician coast of northwestern Spain and buried in Santiago de hole wave Stella (Santiago), also now the pilgrim road end. As the war continued and Crusader is rampant, there weren't many Europeans can go to Jerusalem or Rome pilgrimage, therefore the Pope of Rome, Santiago local church and European countries the king decided together for all of Europe pilgrims opened a pilgrimage to Santiago in Spain, by walking pilgrimage to repentance and atonement objective. So from the beginning of thirteenth Century 12, Europe pilgrims everfount to Spain Santiago pilgrimage, until seventeenth Century the Spanish Empire and the decline in modern war, Santiago road gradually faded out.

Image & text.Xing PengSina blog