THE DEVOTION TO THE APOSTLE SAINT JAMES THE GREAT IN THE CATHEDRAL OF SANTIAGO DE CHILE: IMAGES AND DOCUMENTS

Abstract

This paper is the result of a researching fellowship in Santiago de Chile, where we worked to collect all the artistic examples of the apostle Saint James the Great in the capital, which took his name, in order to analyse his forms of representation thought the History and try to determine the origin of each exemplar. Paradoxically, the history of this presence became the history of his absence, when we corroborated that the images of Saint James as an individual in the Cathedral, more than two hundred parishes and dozens of convents and museums have resulted in a total of nine, and all of them correspond to contemporary examples or late imports. In this text we will take care of the images in the Cathedral, the place that centralized the cult to the Apostle.