James the Greater: In addition to the cockle shell that arose as a symbol with the pilgrimage of Compostela, and the knight's armor derived from the legend that he fought at a battle agains the Moors in Spain, the apostle is also represented carrying a pilgrim’s staff and the scroll or book of the new Law, and sometimes a sword that evokes his decapitation.
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