How on earth can a town in Spain claim to have the body of one of the apostles of Jesus Christ? But that’s exactly the assertion made by Santiago de Compostela. For over a thousand years, its cathedral has boasted…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: apostle, Caliphate, camino, cathedral, Compostela, Cordoba, emir, James, Matamoros, moor, Moors, reconquest, reconquista, Santiago, slayer, spain, taifa, Templar, vision
Toledo in Spain shows how Christians and Muslims lived together and even allowed churches to become mosques and vice versa
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Catholic, christ, church, city, Compostela, convivencia, cristo, death, evil, faith, faiths, good, James, jewish, light, Luz, Mesquita, Mezquita, moor, Moorish, mosque, muslim, plague, reconquista, spain, Toledo
How Saint James became the patron saint of crusaders and his shrine at Santiago de Compostela
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Category: Templar History
Tags: apostle, Arimathea, Catholic, christianity, Compostela, france, Galicia, glastonbury, Iberia, India, James, Joseph, knight, Knightfall, Magdalene, Mary, Medieval, relic, saint, Santiago, Templar, Thomas