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Why is Santiago de Compostela so important in the Christian world?

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According to tradition, St. James the Apostle came to Spain and brought Christianity to the Iberian peninsula. To commemorate that fact, the Spanish built a great shrine to honor the apostle, which has been a place of pilgrimage ever since.
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