Feast of St. James

The apostle whose shrine drew pilgrims for a thousand years and still does.

The Feast of St. James on July 25 honors the apostle James the Greater, one of Jesus's twelve apostles and the first apostle to be martyred, beheaded on the orders of Herod Agrippa in Jerusalem around 44 CE. His remains are traditionally believed to be enshrined in Santiago de Compostela in northwes