Before we can explore what reasoning behind my thesis, we first need to establish what the lore contends of the history of the Camino de Santiago. According to Christian legend, after Jesus’s apostles divided the known world into missionary zones. The Iberian Peninsula fell to James. James, or Tiago in Spanish (hence Santiago, San being the word for Saint in Spanish. San Tiago was shortened to Santiago) was a man of courage and forgiveness and a man without jealousy, who lived in the shadow of his devout brother, John. Saint James, a man of extraordinary faith, was the first of the twelve apostles to become a martyr. He became a martyr, as the ancient documents describe, after the Virgin Mary appeared to St James the Great in 40AD on the
