Spain, St. James Way: Religious ceremony around the silver head of Saint Gregory in the monastery of Irache

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Saint Gregory was the bishop of Ostia and one of the first St. James Pilgrims. He is told to cure the region Estella in Navarra of a plague and so he became the patron of the farmers. Every year on a sunday in may the silver relic with the cranium of St. Gregory is used in a farmer´s mass at the monastery of Irache.

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Location: Monastery of Irache, Navarre, Spain
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