PECTINIDJE. SCALLOP. Ill 



Galicians took the scallop sliell as the sign of St. 

 James."* 



The port where the body of St. James was landed 

 was called Tria Flavia, now Padron.f In those 

 days there reigned over the country a certain queen 

 named " Lupa," and she and her people were plunged 

 in wickedness and idolatry. Now, having come 

 to shore, they laid the body of the Apostle upon a 

 great stone, which became like wax, and, receiving the 

 body, closed around it. This was a sign that the 

 saint willed to remain there ; but the wicked queen 

 Lupa was displeased, and commanded that some 

 wild bulls should be harnessed to a car, and that the 

 body, with the self-formed tomb, should be placed on 

 it> hoping that it would be dragged to destruction. 

 But in this she was mistaken, for the wild bulls, when 

 signed by the cross, became as docile as sheep, and 

 they drew the body of St. James straight into the 

 court of her palace. When queen Lupa beheld this 

 miracle, she was confounded, and she and all her 

 people became Christians, and she built a magnificent 

 Church to receive the sacred remains, and died in the 

 odour of sanctity. But then came the darkness and 

 ruin, which, during the invasion of the Barbarians, 

 overshadowed all Spain, and the body of the Apostle 

 was lost, and no one knew where to find it, until the 

 year 800. FlorezJ says, that a Galician peasant dis- 

 covered, in the ninth century, the spot in wJiich was 



* 'Pilgrims of the Middle Ages,' by the Rev. E. L. Cutts, M.A. 

 ' Art Journal/ 1861. 



f * Sacred and Legendary Art,' 2 vols. by Mrs. Jameson. 



J * Historia Compostellana,' lib. i. cap. ii. apud, ' Espana Sagrada/ 

 tome xx. 



