Come and join us at 10.00 a.m. tomorrow, 24 July, on the eve of the feast of St James the Greater as we celebrate his life and witness at our Morning Prayer and Holy Rosary. James was the brother of St John and they were sons of Zebedee. Our Lord called them 'Boanerges' [sons of thunder], possibly because of their fiery temperament! James was the first of the apostles to be martyred by King Herod Agrippa in AD 44. He became associated with the north of Spain from the 7th century onwards, though there is no evidence for this connection. However, his alleged relics were taken to what is now Santiago de Compostela, and as a result it became a huge place of pilgrimage, peaking between the 12th and 15th centuries. Today the Camino de Santiago is a popular walking route not only for Christians but for anyone who values the wild and beautiful terrain of northern Spain.