A Wikipedia article on James, son of Zebedee, recording that he "is styled the Greater to distinguish him from the other apostle James the Lesser," that the pilgrimage to his grave at Santiago de Compostela, the Way of St James, has been the most popular pilgrimage for Western European Catholics, and that his emblem, the scallop shell, was worn by pilgrims to his shrine.
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Reliability Tier3
A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here to confirm the scallop shell and pilgrim staff as James the Greater's standard artistic attributes, independently corroborated by the Victoria and Albert Museum's own catalogue description of an actual 1440 to 1460 alabaster panel carrying both. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James,_son_of_Zebedee
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Santiago de Compostela directly: "that the pilgrimage to his grave at Santiago de Compostela, the Way of St James, has been the most popular pilgrimage for Western European Catholics, and that his emblem, the scallop shell, was worn..."
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This source backs 7 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds.
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- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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