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james the great

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james the great witnessed christ's transfiguration on the mountain

his bones rest at the end of El Camino de Santiago in Spain, where hundreds of thousands make the  pilgramage to cathedral of Santiago de Compostela 

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no one knows if

the bones

are really

his:

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there are also

two versions of his burial, and how he came to be associated with the shell symbol: 

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