__________________________Psalm 34:8
Taste
and
see
that
the
Lord
is
good,
happy are they who trust in him _____________
James & his brother John were the sons of the fisherman Zebedee. Called early on by Jesus, they were nicknamed "The Sons of Thunder, providing hope to the hot head-ed! James was the first of the Apostles to be martyred. According to tra-dition, his body was taken to Spain and still today Santiago de Compostela is the culmina-tion of the famous pilgrimage route, the Camino de Santiago. This statue of James
in the cathedral at the starting point of the Camino. I almost didn’t use him because the
eyes kind of wig me out, but he’s got his staff, his pilgrim’s broad hat & the shell, his sym-
bol which is used as a marker for pilgrims all along the Camino.
It is also at the bottom of the shield of he Diocese of San Diego because Robert Wolter-storff, was at St James, La Jolla before he was elected our first bishop. (Or maybe it's an historiacl artifct now as I can't find it online.) Our 5th and current brand new obispo
is Susan Brown Snook.
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