Iconografia jacobea en Cataluña

In 9th century, in Iria FLavia, it was discovered the body of Saint James apostle. Since this moment, several literary operas, which explained the miraculous circumstances that took the saint apostle body from Jerusalem to Finis Terrae, was published in order to elucidate any doubt about the relic’s identity. Afterwards, a new literature leaved the relics translation out for promoting and spreading the life and the miracles of Saint James, in order to consolidate the compostelan cult. In this travel through the Jacobean iconography from Catalonia we can see like this evolution of the literary message has his reflection in the iconographic cycles. So, like take place in the writing operas the first iconographic cycles put the accent in the translation sancti Jacobi and little by little they are replaced for new larges cycles which emphasise his live and miracles