[Gocamino] [saintjames] Santiago news

Sun Jan 30 08:16:05 PST 2011

Oh yes, those events are described thrillingly in the formidable "Historia Compostelana" and in the first volume of the Parga/Lacarra/Ruiz "Las Peregrinaciones a Santiago de Compostela" (ISBN 9788423 517244).  A modern action movie wouldn't do justice to what went on in, let us say, Obradoiro Square, with the mobs everywhere destroying and looting and the formidable Queen Urraca being dragged, literally, over the coals, stark naked (she survived to rule another day), and the bishop in his birthday suit saving his life "by his eyelashes"... and on and on for hundreds of pages; most of these fireworkish struggles for power took place on the eleventh and part of the twelfth centuries. The onslaught of violent actions and reactions over primacy of power and influence in Compostela pretty much abated in the latter part of the twelfth century, and the consecration of the new Cathedral upon its completion in 1211 was the last. 

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From: Sil <sillydoll at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [saintjames] Santiago news

Both Linda Davidson and Walter Starkie relate stories about the running
attles and resultant blood shed in the cathedral during the 12th and 13th C
hich meant that the cathedral had to be thoroughly scrubbed and
e-consecrated each time!
On 30 January 2011 04:54, Rosina <Blaroli at aol.com> wrote:
>

 Hello you all, again
 Still snowed-in by that wonderful blanket of snow bestowed upon New Yorkers
 by the meteorolical powers, I've time to read pilgrims things and can share
 them:
 --From the 31st. of January to the 28th of February there will be an
 exhibition at the San Martin Penario monastery/cum/seminary (across the
 Santiago Cathedral door in Azabacherias Square) of photographs and other
 mementos of events related to the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Santiago
 last November. The exhibit will include myriads of photographs from which
 those finding themselves in them can acquire a copy (for free). The exhibit
 will also include the objects given to the Cathedral by the Pope such as the
 silver chalice and other Mass symbols used during the general Mass in
 Santiago. Cds and the transcripts of the music composed for the occasion
 will also be available. In addition, applications for the one thousand fully
 funded University scholarships in commemoration of the Pope's visit may be
 obtained at the exhibit. The Salon Peregrinos (Pilgrims Hall) of the
 Hospederia of San Martin Penario that will host the event will be open
 Mondays to Fridays from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 4:00 to 8:30 p.m.
 Those wishing copies of photographs may do so in those days , from the 31st.
 of January to the 13th of February from 5:00 to 7:45 p.m.

 - The Pilgrims' office winter hours will be from 10:am. to 8:p.m. Mondays
 to Saturdays, and on Sundays and holidays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., and
 from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m.

 -Private contributions have augmented to 2.5 million Euros (4 million
 dollars) the funds available for the cultural and educational commemoration
 of the 800th anniversary of the Santiago Cathedral; included in the projects
 are the rehabilitation of the much beloved and long suffering Berenguela
 Bell and a thorough review and redo of the Botafumeiro works and ropes
 which, many feel, got through the demands of the 2010 Holy Year on a wing
 and a prayer.

 According to the surviving documentation the builder and sculptor Maestro
 Mateo was born in Lugo and lived there with his family at the end of the
 12th century and the beginning of the 13th. During that time he designed and
 built the Cesuras and Minho bridges in Portomarin. In February of 1168 King
 Ferdinand II put him in charge of the Cathedral of Santiago works. His
 remuneration was 100 maravwedis for life. Forty years later, in 1211, the
 then archbishop Pedro Muniz consecrated he Cahedral in the presence of king
 Alfonso IX.
 There had been two other attempted Cathedrals before the present one: in
 the 9th Century Alfonso II ordered the first one to be built using the
 remnants of the Roman necropolis where the relics of Sntiago and his
 disciples had been found, but in the tenth century Alfonso III ordered the
 first one to be torn down and built his own one with brand new marble
 materials; this one was destroyed by the Moor Almanzor in 998 ; after
 several attempts to rebuild it, finally, in 1078, King Alonso VI and Bishop
 Pelaez totally scrapped previous rebuilding attempts and began building the
 present one from scratch. Power struggles and turf-fights between kings and
 bishops and archbishops pretty much paralyzed any efforts to get on with the
 project until the appearance on the scene of the unbelievable Maestro Mateo
 who not only got the engineering and architectural challenges in the
 building of the Cathedral in hand, but managed, in his spare time it seems,
 to work on the Portico de Gloria, on the breath-taking stone choir (now in
 view in the Cathedral Museum) and on a myriad other magnificent construction
 and artistic wonder works all over Galicia.
 I hope that the 800-years celebration of the Cathedral will give pride of
 place to such pre-Renaissance Renaissance genius.
 Hugs!
 Rosina

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