MADRID — Remains found in a tomb in northwestern Spain are likely to belong to a ninth-century bishop believed to have helped create the Camino de Santiago, one of Christianity's most popular pilgrimages, a new study has found.
An archaeologist works on remains found in a tomb in northwestern Spain which, according to a new study, are likely to belong to a ninth-century bishop believed to have helped create the Camino de Santiago, one of Christianity's most popular pilgrimages, in Santiago de Compostela, Spain Nov 20, 2019.
Oral tradition, later written down, has it that Theodomir discovered the tomb of St James the Apostle between 820 and 830 AD following a divine revelation in what is now Santiago de Compostela, the capital of the Galicia region. The 146 km royal pilgrimage established what is today known as the "Primitive Way", the oldest path used by pilgrims of the Camino, or Way of St James.
An initial study of the bones concluded that they probably came from an elderly adult male, but three decades later a new assessment based on photographs of the site proclaimed them to belong to a woman aged between 50 and 70.
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