St. James' mother?

[Rosina Lila]

Hi Jack,
The Gospels offer some data about the origins and fisherman's occupation of
James "the elder". His parents were Zebedeo and Salome (apparently Mary's,
the Blessed Mother, sister) and John, the evangelist, was his younger
brother. Dubbed as a "son of thunder" James was on occasion reprehended by
Jesus Himself because of his impulsive nature, as when he asked Our Lord to
visit fire on some villages that had not welcomed the Apostles.  James'
impetuosity forebode well for his later role as patron of Spain at the head
of the forces which expelled the infidels from Iberia.
James "the elder", so called to distinguish him from the other apostle also
called James, was beheaded in the year A.D. 44 by Herod Agrippa, king of
Israel, in Jerusalem. Today, Armenian orthodox monks maintain a chapel at the
site of James' martyrdom.  Shortly after James'  beheading Herod Agrippa
himself died suddenly and the miraculous saga of James' fabled history began.
The medieval "Liber Sancti Jacobi" book relates that two of James' disciples,
Atanasio and Theodore, retrieved his body from the open field in which it had
been abandoned, as was customarily done with the corpses of those executed,
and sailed with it towards Spain, arriving in Iria Flavia (modern Padron)
seven days later. A serious of fortuitous events accompanied the two
disciples, including imprisonment and persecution by enemies of the Christian
faith, including queen Lupa and an imperial representative in Duyo.
Eventually James' body was buried in a crypt dug in Libredon, and, as was the
custom of the times, a small chapel was erected thereon.  Upon their death
James' two disciples were buried on the same site.
However the body of James may have arrived in Galicia, what has been verified
historically is the fact that at the beginning of the ninth century news of
the discovery of James' mortal remains spread in Finisterre forging an
indelible impression on the entire western world.
Regards,
Rosina