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Revival of the Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela: The Politics of Religious, National, and European Patrimony, 1879–1988
Ist Teil von
The Journal of modern history, 2010-06, Vol.82 (2), p.335-367
Ort / Verlag
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2010
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The status of St. James, like that of the Spanish church in general, declined in the eighteenth century as pilgrimage and patron sainthood were increasingly dismissed as superstition. Liberal governments of the nineteenth century suspended the royal offering to St. James and weakened the independent church wealth upon which the hospitality system along the pilgrimage route depended. Although the cult never disappeared completely, its power as both a universal and a national symbol receded. Active devotion to it became almost totally limited to Galicia and nearby districts of northern Portugal. In 1879, the Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, a town of 25,000 inhabitants in Spanish Galicia, announced that the apostle's bones had been discovered buried beneath the local cathedral. Cardinal Miguel Paya's announcement set in motion a protracted revival of the Jacobean cult in Spain and throughout the Catholic world over the course of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Here, Pack looks at the revival of the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.