Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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James the Great

Gender
None
Floruit (period)
Biblical
Floruit date range
? - ?
Description
Son of Zebedee, elder brother of St John, and one of the privileged group of disciples present at the Transfiguration and the Agony in Gethsemane. James and John were known as ‘Boanerges’, ‘sons of thunder’, because of their zeal (Mk. 3.17). James was beheaded in A.D. 44 (Acts 12.2). The cult of St James was cultivated by the kings of Asturias (Spain) in the later ninth century, and the church of Santiago de Compostela claimed to possess the relics of St James; pilgrimage to Compostela was one of the most important in medieval Christendom.
Categories
major type minor type confidence notes
None Apostle 100 None
ethnicity
ethnicity description confidence notes
no ethnicity available
feast days
month day fixed? description notes
7 25 yes James the Great None
symbolic attributes
attribute notes
Pilgrim's Hat None
Scallop Shell None
specialist associations
association notes
no specialist associations