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The Jacobean Holy Year (in Galician, Ano Santo Xacobeo), also known as the Compostela Holy Year or simply Jacobean, is a Catholic celebration that takes place in the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela, in Galicia, the years when July 25 , feast of Santiago Apóstol, falls on Sunday. This happens with a regular cadence of 6-5-6-11 years (except when the last year of a century is not a leap year, when there may be periods of 7 or 12 years), so that each century fourteen Jacobean Holy Years are celebrated.
STORY:
The Compostela Jubilee Holy Year was established in 1122 for the year 1126 by the Pontiff Calixto II, who curiously had been a pilgrim to Santiago de Compostela when he held the archiepiscopal chair of Vienne (Isère) in France.
On February 27, 1120, the bull Omnipotentis Dispositione elevated Santiago de Compostela to archiepiscopal dignity, transferring the metropolitan see of Mérida to this city, in accordance with the wishes of Diego Gelmírez (bishop of Compostela from 1100 to 1139) and with the consent of King Alfonso VII of León (the emperor), of whom Calixto II was uncle by reason of the marriage of his brother Raimundo de Borgoña with the Infanta Urraca de León y Castilla, daughter of Alfonso VI de León.
In 1122, coinciding with the laying of the last stone in the cathedral of Santiago, Calixto II granted him the privilege of regularly celebrating the Jacobean Holy Year from 1126, provided that the feast of Santiago Apóstol —July 25— fell on Sunday so that they could earn in Compostela the same graces that were granted in Rome the jubilee years that used to coincide there every twenty-five years.
The privilege granted by Calixto II was confirmed and extended by later pontiffs like Eugene III, and Anastasio IV. Finally, Alexander III, in the bull Regis aeterni of July 25, 1178, declared the perpetual character of the privilege and equated it with those of Rome and Jerusalem.
Such provisions extraordinarily promoted during the Middle Ages the rise of pilgrimages from all over Europe through the so-called Camino de Santiago.
The last have been 1993, 1999, 2004 and 2010. Eleven years have passed since the last, we are currently in the Jacobean year, more specifically the Jacobean year 2021-2022, which in this edition, in addition and due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it will exceptionally extend to the year 2022, something that had never happened before. It is, therefore, the first time that the Jacobean will be held for two consecutive years.
They will operate on HF Bands.
QSL via eQSL only.
The Jacobean Holy Year (in Galician, Ano Santo Xacobeo), also known as the Compostela Holy Year or simply Jacobean, is a Catholic celebration that takes place in the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela, in Galicia, the years when July 25 , feast of Santiago Apóstol, falls on Sunday. This happens with a regular cadence of 6-5-6-11 years (except when the last year of a century is not a leap year, when there may be periods of 7 or 12 years), so that each century fourteen Jacobean Holy Years are celebrated.
STORY:
The Compostela Jubilee Holy Year was established in 1122 for the year 1126 by the Pontiff Calixto II, who curiously had been a pilgrim to Santiago de Compostela when he held the archiepiscopal chair of Vienne (Isère) in France.
On February 27, 1120, the bull Omnipotentis Dispositione elevated Santiago de Compostela to archiepiscopal dignity, transferring the metropolitan see of Mérida to this city, in accordance with the wishes of Diego Gelmírez (bishop of Compostela from 1100 to 1139) and with the consent of King Alfonso VII of León (the emperor), of whom Calixto II was uncle by reason of the marriage of his brother Raimundo de Borgoña with the Infanta Urraca de León y Castilla, daughter of Alfonso VI de León.
In 1122, coinciding with the laying of the last stone in the cathedral of Santiago, Calixto II granted him the privilege of regularly celebrating the Jacobean Holy Year from 1126, provided that the feast of Santiago Apóstol —July 25— fell on Sunday so that they could earn in Compostela the same graces that were granted in Rome the jubilee years that used to coincide there every twenty-five years.
The privilege granted by Calixto II was confirmed and extended by later pontiffs like Eugene III, and Anastasio IV. Finally, Alexander III, in the bull Regis aeterni of July 25, 1178, declared the perpetual character of the privilege and equated it with those of Rome and Jerusalem.
Such provisions extraordinarily promoted during the Middle Ages the rise of pilgrimages from all over Europe through the so-called Camino de Santiago.
The last have been 1993, 1999, 2004 and 2010. Eleven years have passed since the last, we are currently in the Jacobean year, more specifically the Jacobean year 2021-2022, which in this edition, in addition and due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it will exceptionally extend to the year 2022, something that had never happened before. It is, therefore, the first time that the Jacobean will be held for two consecutive years.