{"id":7755,"date":"2018-08-12T08:52:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T15:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=7755"},"modified":"2018-08-12T08:52:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T15:52:25","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-don-elias-valina-sampedro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-don-elias-valina-sampedro\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Don El\u00edas Vali\u00f1a Sampedro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>he other side chapel of the Iglesia de Santa Mar\u00eda la Real in O Cebreiro, dedicated to Santiago, contains what many would say is another miracle. This is the tomb of Don El\u00edas Vali\u00f1a Sampedro. He was the parish priest here in the 1970s, and he was the man who first painted the yellow arrows along the Camino route. He very much rescued the Camino from it&#8217;s nineteenth and twentieth century obscurity and popularized it for the modern age. His guidebook, published in 1984, was the first in centuries. <\/p>\n<p>There are only a handful of people who can truly be said to have shaped the Camino &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James,_son_of_Zebedee\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saint James<\/a> himself, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theodemir_of_Iria\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bishop Theodemir<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfonso_II_of_Asturias\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">King Alfonso II of Asturias<\/a> (the first pilgrim), <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dominic_de_la_Calzada\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Santo Domingo de la Calzada<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Juan_de_Ortega_(hermit)\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Juan de Ortega<\/a>. To these, we must add <a href=\"http:\/\/caminotravelcenter.com\/who-was-elias-valina-follow-the-yellow-arrow\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Don El\u00edas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-don-elias-valina-sampedro\/28055758526_d1d8f10f1d_k\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7756\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/28055758526_d1d8f10f1d_k-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/28055758526_d1d8f10f1d_k-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/28055758526_d1d8f10f1d_k-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/28055758526_d1d8f10f1d_k-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/28055758526_d1d8f10f1d_k-560x747.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/28055758526_d1d8f10f1d_k-260x347.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/28055758526_d1d8f10f1d_k-160x213.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/28055758526_d1d8f10f1d_k.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Date: 25 April 2016<br \/>\nPlace: O Cebreiro (Galicia, Spain)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other side chapel of the Iglesia de Santa Mar\u00eda la Real in O Cebreiro, dedicated to Santiago, contains what many would say is another miracle. This is the tomb of Don El\u00edas Vali\u00f1a Sampedro. He was the parish priest here in the 1970s, and he was the man who first painted the yellow arrows along the Camino route. 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