Two propositions are central to it : first , that St. James preached the gospel in Iberia as well as in the Holy Land ; second , that after his martyrdom at the hands of Herod Agrippa his disciples carried his body by sea to Iberia , where they landed at Padrón on the coast of Galicia , and took it inland for burial at Santiago de Compostela .
Two ideas are central to it : first , that St James preached the gospel in Spain as well as in the Holy Land ; second , that after his martyrdom at the hands of Herod Agrippa I his disciples carried his body by sea to Spain , where they landed at Padrón on the coast of Galicia , and took it inland for burial at Santiago de Compostela .