James Society

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A James Brotherhood or Society takes care of the spiritual and physical well-being and of the protection of pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago .

The pilgrim is regarded as worthy of respect and protection. To help him to offer him shelter for one night, including food and drink, is a general Christian duty. The numerous Jakobskirchen and especially in France also a gothic crowd, which is still splendid today, testify to the power of this pious mass movement in the Middle Ages and afterwards. In this sense, the James Brotherhoods came into being in the Middle Ages. B. 1496 in Bamberg, which was revived in 2006.

The James societies came into being in the second half of the 20th century. The first was in 1950 the “Société des Amis de Saint-Jacques” in France . In Germany, the first association was founded in 1979 as the St. Jakobus Brotherhood Düsseldorf eV, still very much in the sense of a brotherhood above. In 1986 the Jakobusgemeinschaft Rohrdorf eV followed with the Rohrdorf center as a local community of the Jakobus parish. In 1987 the pilgrims of St. James from Cologne joined together as Santiago Friends Cologne. The German St. Jakobus Society is a supraregional association that came into being in the same year. The Franconian St. Jakobus Society in Würzburg followed in 1988. The St. Jakobusbruderschaft Trier is the oldest documented brotherhood on German soil, which was newly founded in 2003. There are a total of 18 St. James associations in Germany today, which on December 31, 2007 had a total of 8,295 members. These associations issued 21,089 credenciales ( pilgrim cards) in 2007 .

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