After St Thomas Becket yesterday we have St James the Great today.

Both are our pilgrim saints.

St James’s shell has become the universal pilgrim badge familiar on both the Camino and Pilgrims’ Way.

Today 30 December is the Translation of St James recalling the arrival of St James’s body in Galicia having been brought by sea from the Holy Land.

The celebrations this morning at Santiago de Compostela mirror those on St James’s Day 25 July. The difference is that today there are more locals in the cathedral and not so many pilgrims arriving on foot.

Shere church on the Pilgrims’ Way is dedicated to St James.