Santiago de Compostela, Spain — 813
Mysterious star CD
- One night, a hermit named Pelayo heard music in a wood and saw a peculiar shining star above Mount Libredon, a former Celtic sacred site. Because of this sighting the place was called, in Latin, “Campus Stellae,” field of the star, a name that was later turned into Compostela. A modern brochure adds: “Bishop Teodomiro, who received notice of that event, instituted an investigation, and so the tomb of the Apostle was discovered. King Alphonse II declared Saint James the patron of his empire and had built a chapel at that place (…) More and more pilgrims followed the way of Santiago, the ‘Path of Saint James,’ and the original chapel soon became the cathedral of the new settlement, Santiago de Compostela.”
Source: Santiago, History and Legends (http://www.red2QQQ.com/spain/santiago/history.html). To the best of our knowledge, the story first appeared in the Concordia de Antealtares, a text dated from 1077. Case: W008