European monarchs and religious entities had a penchant for erecting massively elaborate and intricately beautiful monuments ...

Routinely, pilgrims ask me to take their photo and email it to them. Then they say, “I’ve got to go meet with St. James,” and as has been the routine for centuries, they head into the cathedral.

For more than 1,000 years, Santiago de Compostela (Compostela means “field of stars”) has attracted pilgrims from Europe and elsewhere to walk the Way of St. James, ending at the cathedral ...

St. James Cathedral celebrates 100 years More than 1,000 expected to attend anniversary Mass, reception at St. James today By CHRISTINE FREY AND HECTOR CASTRO , P-I REPORTERS July 24, 2007 ...

Before Feb. 3, 1916, St. James had three landmark elevations: two Renaissance towers and the cathedral’s centered dome. On Feb. 2 of that year, it lost the dome.

St. James Cathedral in Seattle was the scene on Friday evening for a 400th-anniversary re-creation of Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610, and the sheer freshness, of music and performance alike ...