Take a swim at Tiber River . Visit Single Catholics Online today. It has been an archiepiscopal see since 1120, but as the successor to the ancient See of Iria its episcopal rank dates certainly from the fourth, probably from the first, century of our era. The name Compostela does not appear before the tenth century. Three years previous a council held in the cathedral is called Compostellanum .
Similar diminutives abound in the Middle Ages.
Here stood in those days the city of Iria, capital of the Gallician Caporos, as may be seen from its Roman ruins, especially the inscriptions, some of which are contemporary with the beginning of the Christian Era. According to a very probable tradition, it was here that the Apostle St. James the Great preached the Christian religion and founded an episcopal see. Plurima hic praesul patravit signa stupendus Quae nunc in chartis scribuntur rite quadratis. He, at the first did convert the Spanish peoples by his teaching, turning towards God's word the barbarous hordes that had long practised primitive rites and worshipped at the shrines of darkness, being deceived by the craft of the evil one. The list of the bishops of Iria known to us from their presence at councils and from other authentic sources begins with the year 400.