Santiago Mataespañois

Mid-19th century
Silver
Museum of Pilgrimages, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain

An indigenous uprising in 19th-century Peru adopted Santiago as its champion, using the "Matamoros" iconography that in Peru had come to be associated with a pre-Columbian deity who drove out evil forces.

More of St. James the Greater

Photographed on site by Richard Stracke.