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I asked the rider if I could take the photo- held up my camera - did not to be obnoxious tourtist,
He gave me a thumbs up----- and I got this amazing shot.
Church is a Capella - visiting preist do baptism -weddings -last rites- no clergry lives there.
Tree is in the middle of a wheat field - saw farmer go out to inspect new crop - middle of French Camino in Spain's bread basket.
Tile is self evident.
Saint James the
Patron Saint of Spain who most real historians believe never set foot in Spain - much less was buried in a 3th century Roman Cemetery in Galicia ---that became the city of Santiagio de Compostala.
Wishfull 9th century thinking - the body was discovered by a crazy hermit in the same year" Charlemagne died 814. There was no marker - nothing to actually identify the body - but they needed a patron saint to unite them against the Moors -
Self- fullfiiling Prophecy--- If a fake relic perfoms like a real one, then it is "ipso facto" the real thing.
Read
Holy Bones - Holy Dust by Charles Feeman about all the fake relics in Europe in the 9th century.
Or --
Furtra Sacra --by Patrick Geary "Thefts of relics in the middle ages"
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