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St James the Great 25th July
James the Great, Apostle and martyr, died 44AD, being executed under Herod Agrippa (Acts 12:2). He was brother of John, one of the sons of Zebedee. He was the first Apostle to die for the Christian faith. Various legends claim that either he preached or was buried in Spain (though neither command much credence, at least outside Spain! Santiago de Compostela, where his shrine is, was supported by kings, popes and bishops and James was pictured as the defender of Christianity against the Moors. The pilgrimage here was one of the most important in medieval Europe and abbeys sprang up along the pilgrimage roads to provide hospitality for pilgrims. Reading Abbey was given a hand-relic of James by the Empress Matilda. The earliest documentary evidence for the translation of James' relics from Jerusalem to Spain is in the Martyrology of Usuard (865CE). Compostela and its pilgrimage was so important that it transformed the iconography of James, his emblems becoming the pilgrim's hat and the scallop shell associated with Compostela. Over 400 churches in England are dedicated to him.
Some images in glass:
Chartres, Cathédrale Notre Dame, Bay 5, St James window set of images:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/sets/72157625693292148
Acaster Malbis. Holy Trinity, Yorkshire, east window, 3d-4d:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2832711303
Barton upon Humber, St Peter, east window( ex, at present in storage with English Heritage in York awaiting conservation - which is where I photographed it):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/4289111136
and detail:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/4289113064
Oxford, Merton College Chapel, west window:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/6385645983
North Tuddenham, St Mary, Porch, Norfolk, porch, west window, 1b-3b:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/6124794305https://www.flickr.
detail:
com/photos/22274117@N08/6125347048
York, St Mary Castlegate, sIII, 2b:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/6051849783
and detail:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/6052402886
York Minster, wI, 5f-7f, 1340's (right-hand figure):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/4708751881
Harpley, St Lawrence, Norfolk, wI, A4:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/3319531879
York, All Saints North Street, sVI, 2a-3a:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/4113344510
and detail:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/4113346252
Stamford, Browne's Hospital, sII, 9a-11a:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2500155396
Icklingham, All Saints, Norfolk, sII, 2b (figure on right):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/4445722539
Langport, All Saints, Somerset, east window, c2:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2829151044
Bourges, Cathédrale St Étienne, Bay 27father & mother of Pierre Trousseau presented by St James the Great, :
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/4267465992
Bourges, Cathédrale St Étienne, Bay 25, Annunciation with St James and St Catherine:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/4265841713
Tattershall, Holy Trinity, Lincolnshire, east window, 3b:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2307628797
Gloucester Cathedral, east window (figure on left)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/4543379181
Doddiscombsleigh, St Michael, Devon, nIII, 2a:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/3635236733
and detail:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/3636073822
Gordon Plumb
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