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	Santiago de Compostela - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to a tradition that cannot be traced before the 12th century, the relics were said to have been discovered in 835 by Theodomir, bishop of Iria Flavia in the far northwest of the principality of Asturias.
		Theodomir was guided to the spot by a star, the legend affirmed, drawing upon a familiar myth-element, hence "Compostela" was given an etymology as a corruption of Campus Stellae, "Plain of the Star." Other etymologies derive it from "San Jacome Apostol".
		The pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela internationalized the entire route to a degree unheard of in this impoverished and isolated backwater on the outermost fringes of Europe, which was opened most particularly to the influence of France, whence the great majority of pilgrims always came.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santiago_de_Compostela (1473 words)

	Compostela, Cebu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Compostela shares common boundaries with Danao City on the north with the municipalities of Liloan and Consolacion on the south, with Camotes Sea on the east, and with Cebu City and the municipality of Balamban on the west.
		Compostela was among the early barrios of the municipality of Danao established by Captain del Rosario.
		The newly-established barrio was named Compostela upon the suggestion of Father Jose Alonzo, A Roman Catholic friar who, by some historical account, reportedly came from the town in Spain and brought along with him the image of the town’s patron saint, Señor Santiago de Apostol (St. James the Apostle).
	www.ngkhai.com /pointcebu/facts/compostela.htm (1080 words)

	The Compostela and the plenary indulgence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		These two elements appear to have been dropped from the compostela in the mid-C18th, and the text as we now have it is little changed since then.
		On arrival at the Cathedral in Santiago, pilgrims take their credencial or Pilgrim Record, duly stamped along the way, to the nearby Pilgrim Office and a Compostela certificate (still written in Latin, and confirming the completion of the pilgrimage) is generally issued.
		The Compostela (take a photocopy, which the hotel staff will retain) may be presented at the Hotel de los Reyes Católicos who provide 10 free pilgrim meals three times a day.
	www.csj.org.uk /compostela.htm (655 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Compostela
		In a document of 912 it is said of the monastery of St. Martin, near the cathedral: quod situm est in urbe Compostella.
		Pope Callistus II recognized the great merits of Diego Gelmírez, Bishop of Compostela, and in view of the reconquest of much Portuguese territory, and the near recovery of its freedom by Merida, the ancient metropolis of Lusitania (Portugal), confided to him the perpetual administration of that archdiocese, whereby Compostela became a metropolitan see.
		the solemn Bull of Leo XIII (1 Nov., 1884) in which he confirms the declaration of Cardinal Payá, Archbishop of Compostela, concerning the identity of the bodies of the Apostle St. James the Greater and his disciples Athanasius and Theodorus.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04187b.htm (1138 words)

	Encyclopedia: Santiago de Compostela
		The Obradoiro faÃ§ade of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela: an all-but-Gothic composition generated entirely of classical details Santiago de Compostela Cathedral is the historic burial-place of Saint James, one of the apostles of Jesus Christ.
		Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint In arts, the Baroque (or baroque) is both a period and the style that dominated it.
		The Universidad de Santiago de Compostela is a spanish university in Santiago de Compostela.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Santiago-de-Compostela (2871 words)

	Santiago de Compostela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Construction on the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain began in 1073.
		The cathedral at Santiago de Compostela is built in the Romanesque style, although there are a mismatch of styles due to different master builders and starts and stops in the construction.
		Also, the city of Santiago de Compostela is now an official Heritage of Humanity in Spain, and the route leading there has been called the 'most important cultural European Route', and has recently been equipped with new signs along the way guiding pilgrims to the city and marking the distance left to the destination.
	people.cornellcollege.edu /k-liabraaten/santiago (993 words)

	Santiago de Compostela -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		These bones were than buried where a shepherd had spotted a star and a church was eventually built over the bones and later replaced with the Cathedral de Santiago de Compostela.
		According to a tradition that cannot be traced before the (Click link for more info and facts about 12th century) 12th century, the relics were said to have been discovered in (Click link for more info and facts about 835) 835 by Theodomir, bishop of Iria in the far northwest of the principality of Asturias.
		Theodomir was guided to the spot by a star, the legend affirmed, drawing upon a familiar myth-element, hence "Compostela" was given an (The study of the sources and development of words) etymology as a corruption of Campus Stellae, "Plain of the Star." Other etymologies derive it from "San Jacome Apostol".
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/santiago_de_compostela.htm (1259 words)

	The Catholic Encyclopedia - Compostela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Soon they petitioned King Ordono II and Pope Nicholas I to permit them to transfer the see from Iria to Compostela, near the sepulchre and church of St. James.
		Though Compostela lost the Portuguese dioceses, 10 Nov., 1399, when Lisbon was made an archbishopric, it acquired in return Astorga, Lugo, Mondonedo, Orense, Tuy, and Zamora.
		The list of the councils of Compostela may be seen in the aforesaid work of Gams, and their text in Mansi or Aguirre.
	jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Catholic_Encyclopedia/04187b.htm (1207 words)

	Compostela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Compostela is a 5th class municipality in the province of Cebu, Philippines.
		According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 31,446 people in 6,296 households.
		The ''Obradoiro'' façade of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela on the Spanish €0.05 coin
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/46/compostela.html (437 words)

	Compostela
		Compostela Valley Governor Jose Caballero claimed IFMA documents have been used by the illegal loggers to trick police and DENR checkpoints in transporting hot...
		On Sunday dawn, Michael Duran of Compostela, a Tau Gamma Phi card-bearer, was fatally shot on the head at a disco in Upper Guiwanon, Poblacion, Compostela.
		Diwalwal, Monkayo, Compostela Valley as thousands of small scale miners are determined to block the entry of another Army infantry battalion replacing the 36th...
	conservation.mongabay.com /news/Compostela.htm (8757 words)

	MPT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Today, Santiago de Compostela remains an exquisitely preserved medieval cathedral town, centred on the shrine of the apostle James, after whom the city is named.
		Santiago de Compostela is almost entirely Romanesque and Baroque – the city’s 18th-century ecclesiastical patrons lavished so much wealth on this particular architectonic approach that it evolved into a style known as Galician Baroque.
		Small enough to be strongly influenced by its university, Santiago de Compostela revels in a continuously refreshed influx of youthful energy and inventiveness that treats the grand stone edifices as the most superb of stage sets.
	www.columbus.travel-guides.com /City.jsp?City=sdc (581 words)

	Santiago de Compostela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Holy Father recalled that Monday was the feast of the Apostle James, "whose relics are venerated in the famous shrine of Santiago de Compostela in Spain...
		Standing at the estuary of the River Urola, Zumaia is plagued with remains of the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, such as the beach and hermitage of...
		The exuberance of the west front of the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, Juan de Herrera's terrifyingly austere Palace-Monastery of the Escorial, the...
	www.conservation.mongabay.com /news/Santiago_de_Compostela.htm (4538 words)

	Santiago de Compostela : Introduction \| Frommers.com
		In addition to being the third-largest holy city of the Christian world, Santiago de Compostela is a university town and a marketplace for Galician farmers.
		Santiago de Compostela's link with legend began in A.D. 813, when an urn was discovered containing what were believed to be the remains of St. James.
		Aside from its religious connections, Santiago de Compostela, with its flagstone streets, churches, and shrines, is one of the most romantic and historic of Spain's great cities.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/santiagodecompostela/1212010001.html (377 words)

	Compostela: Lars Arrhenius, Gabriele Basilico, Roland Fischer, Gunther Forg, Ruben Ramos Balsa, Humberto Rivas, Lorna ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		More than a collective exhibition on the city, Compostela is a series of entwined projects, which try to compete with and to show the present of the town.
		Thus, the CGAC does not forget its mission of contributing to the creation of active contents with regard to the production of memory and is involved in the creation of a more complex vision of the identity of this town through the approaches of several of the most acknowledged artists of the contemporary art scene.
		She reminds us of the fact that beholding the landscape (something which is alive, grows and fights, plays and struggles, which tries to survive and destroys) is an exercise that surpasses the mere act of seeing.
	www.absolutearts.com /cgi-bin/news/arts-news-elaborate.cgi?output_number=20&find=6420 (1243 words)

	Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France - UNESCO World Heritage Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Santiago de Compostela was the supreme goal for countless thousands of pious pilgrims who converged there from all over Europe throughout the Middle Ages.
		Criterion ii: The Pilgrimage Route of Santiago de Compostela played a key role in religious and cultural exchange and development during the later Middle Ages, and this is admirably illustrated by the carefully selected monuments on the routes followed by pilgrims in France.
		Criterion iv: The spiritual and physical needs of pilgrims travelling to Santiago de Compostela were met by the development of a number of specialized types of edifice, many of which originated or were further developed on the French sections.
	whc.unesco.org /pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=868 (292 words)

	Santiago de Compostela study-abroad program for Department of Modern Languages and Classics
		The city of Santiago de Compostela (population 93,000) is located in northwestern Spain in the autonomía of Galicia.
		The University of Santiago de Compostela is located in buildings throughout the city, and recently celebrated its 500th birthday.
		Student housing is scattered throughout the city of Santiago de Compostela in publicly and privately owned student residences.
	www.umaine.edu /MLandC/santiago_de_compostela.html (370 words)

	On the Road to Compostela
		In the Middle Ages, hundreds of medieval pilgrims traveled to the holy shrine of St. James, Santiago de Compostela, to give homage to the martyred apostle, to pay penance for their sins, or to seek a cure for cataracts or cancer or a crippling war wound.
		The cathedral was rebuilt in the early 12th century by Bishop Diego Gelmírez, whom Krochalis and her coauthors call "the main proponent of Santiago’s glory (and his own)." Gelmírez got Compostela named the primary seat of the Church in Spain — and himself an archbishop — by Pope Calixtus II in 1120.
		The Pilgrim’s Guide to Santiago de Compostela, dated by Krochalis and her colleagues to 1138, was part of a larger manuscript compiled in the abbey under his rule and known as the Codex Calixtinus.
	www.rps.psu.edu /may99/compostela.html (1151 words)

	Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Santiago de Compostela is one of the most beautiful cities in Spain.
		The roots of the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC) go back to 1495, when the "Grammatic Academy" in the monastry of San Paio de Antealtares was founded.
		Visit Universidad de Santiago de Compostela website or stop by the Study Abroad Office in 261 MSC to browse their catalogs and brochures.
	www.umsl.edu /services/abroad/universities/santia.html (430 words)

	Santiago de Compostela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Universidade de Santiago de Compostela commemorated its 500th anniversary in 1995.
		Santiago de Compostela, a UNESCO "World Heritage City", is one of the most historically and culturally significant cities in Europe.
		For over a millennium, pilgrims have followed the Camino de Santiago to this city of medieval origins in northwestern Spain, where, according to legend, the body of Saint James was miraculously discovered during the ninth century.
	oncampus.richmond.edu /academics/international/Studyabroad/urprograms/santiago_spain.html (628 words)

	El Camino de Santiago
		Visit the home of the American Association of Friends of the Road to Santiago for up-to-date information on the pilgrimage to Compostela today.
		The VR Romanesque Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
		Program of the 2nd Symposium on the Tomb of the Apostle in Santiago de Compostela, November 13, 2003
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /santiago/iagohome.html (885 words)

	MEDIEVAL MUSIC OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The route of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela became an important channel for the transmission of ideas between the Peninsula and the rest of Europe.
		One example of this cultural communication is the use of the style of polyphony popularized in Notre Dame in the pilgrim hymns of the early twelfth century.
		The songs written in the vernacular were an important contribuition in establishing Galician as a literary language and in endowing that region of Spain with its own culture independent of the rest of the Peninsula.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /Blair/Courses/MUSL242/luaragr4.htm (894 words)

	Hotels in Santiago de Compostela
		Housed in former convent in historic center of Santiago de Compostela, 300 meters from Plaza del Obradoiro and cathedral.
		Santiago De Compostela, LA Symbol of modern Compostela and a short walk away from the Medieval Town, the Melia Araguaney is the perfect site for all kinds of social and business...
		Santiago De Compostela, SC Modern hotel inaugurated in September of 1998, especially suitable for business trips and for groups, as well as for leisure trips.
	www.maps.expedia.co.uk /daily/hotels/Spain/Santiago.asp (733 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Order of Saint James of Compostela
		Founded in the twelfth century, owes its name to the national patron of Spain, St. James the Greater, under whose banner the Christians of Galicia began in the ninth century to combat and drive back the Mussulmans of Spain.
		Compostela, in Galicia, the centre of devotion to this Apostle, is neither the cradle nor the principal seat of the order.
		In fact at León they offered their services to the Canons Regular of St. Eloi in that town for the protection of pilgrims to the shrine of St. James and the hospices on the roads leading to Compostela.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13353a.htm (972 words)

	Hotels in Santiago de Compostela - BOOKINGS online hotel reservations
		The hotel is located in the City Center of Santiago de Compostela, the geographical and administrative heart of Galicia.
		Situated in the heart of the monumental part of town, it occupies a building from the 18th century, it used to be a banking house and the residence of the Jesuits and in front of its facade passed the royal road.… More
		It is located in the historical centre of monumental Compostela, very near to the Plaza del Obradoiro, and provides all the services of a luxury establishment, exquisitely restored in an unrivalled setting.… More
	www.bookings.fr /searchresults.html?city=-402059 (894 words)

	Tribuna de Actualidad: 'Millenium' en Compostela. (festival de teatro, música, ópera, danza; Compostela, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tribuna de Actualidad; 8/10/1998; Hernando, Bernardino M. Compostela Millenium Festival es su nombre completo.
		Ocurrirá, como su nombre indica, en Compostela, Santiago de Compostela.
		Santiago de Compostela ya no es la casa de la Troya.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:21279851&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (233 words)

	Learn Spanish in Santiago de Compostela, Spanish course, language school
		Imparare lo spagnolo a Santiago de Compostela, Spagna, corso di lingua spagnola.
		Santiago de Compostela is an ideal place to learn Spanish, where you can also sample the fine Galician cuisine and wines and discover this university city’s vibrant cultural life.
		Santiago is also an ideal base from which to explore the natural beauty of this ‘undiscovered corner’ of North West Spain, with its snow-capped mountains, green valleys and unspoilt beaches.
	www.applelanguages.com /en/learn/spanish/spain/santiago-de-compostela.php (582 words)

	Santiago de Compostela--History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Santiago de Compostela, located in the Northwest corner of Spain, is the supposed resting place of the remains of St. James the greater, one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus.
		It was discovered (according to legend) by the Bishop Iria Flavia in the 800's around which the town of Santiago de Compostela grew.
		Even today, Santiago de Compostela remains a vibrant cultural and religious center.
	www.susqu.edu /history/medtrav/Santiago/History.htm (299 words)

	The right road for Compostela. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For the last holy year of the millennium, Santiago de Compostela is organizing over one thousand cultural events.
		Santiago de Compostela is an olive grove with olive trees made of stone.
		According to a custom which began in the Middle Ages, whenever July 25, St James’s feast day, falls on a Sunday, the Pope grants a full pardon to all Catholics who enter the cathedral through the Holy Door, which is open only in such years, and then do penance and receive the Eucharist.
	www.unesco.org /courier/1999_08/uk/dossier/txt39.htm (1226 words)

	Study at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Santiago de Compostela, a UNESCO "Patrimonio de la Humanidad" (World Heritage City), is located in northwestern Spain, in the autonomous region of Galicia, on the Atlantic Ocean.
		In addition, visiting other areas of Europe is easy because Santiago has an international airport with many regularly-scheduled flights to most European capitals.
		Santiago de Compostela University is a 500-year-old institution with more than 35,000 students who contribute greatly to a friendly and vibrant social atmosphere in the city.
	www.circaterras.com /UniversityPrograms/UniversidadeSantiagoCompostela.htm (287 words)

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