Il culto di Santiago da Genova alla Riviera di Levante (secc. XIII-XVI)

Abstract

The pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela from Genoa and the Rivieras has began almost simultaneously with the discovery of the tomb in Compostela. The fact is that it was the time when Archbishop Gelmírez called Genoese and Pisan workers to teach to build ships, thanks to their skills. Then, since the thirteenth century, in Genoa and in the Rivieras they built churches, oratories and hospitals dedicated to the saint to help the pilgrims. In fact, religious fervor dominated in Genoa, where its archbishop Jacopo da Voragine did brought a finger of the saint and preserved it in the monastery of the Saints Giacomo and Filippo. In Genoa they built three oratories devoted to the saint in the fifteenth century. The only remaining is the important Oratory of San Giacomo della Marina, which still retains many important paintings depicting the saint.