Priscillian
Veteran Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Frances 1999, Aragones 2000, Desde Le Puy 2002, Portuguese 2009, hoping RDLP 2014
If anyone is interesting in helping me do some "digging" in Santiago I am currently trying to find out what happened to the body of Diego Gelmirez, the first archbishop of Santiago who was primarily responsible for the building of the Romanesque cathedral.
You would think, being the enormously ambitious, powerful and influential man that he was, that he would have left wishes to be buried in "his" cathedral as was his first patron King Alfonso VI of Leon and Castilla. But no. No trace. Seemingly nothing written in any of the literature either English or Spanish.
Now I know that he was not very popular with the Burguers of Compostela, but you would think that his own Canons would have found a place for him? But it would appear they didn't.
What I would like to know is why not, and where was he buried (and by whom)?
Tracy Saunders
http://www.pilgrimagetoheresy.blogspot.com
You would think, being the enormously ambitious, powerful and influential man that he was, that he would have left wishes to be buried in "his" cathedral as was his first patron King Alfonso VI of Leon and Castilla. But no. No trace. Seemingly nothing written in any of the literature either English or Spanish.
Now I know that he was not very popular with the Burguers of Compostela, but you would think that his own Canons would have found a place for him? But it would appear they didn't.
What I would like to know is why not, and where was he buried (and by whom)?
Tracy Saunders
http://www.pilgrimagetoheresy.blogspot.com