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Another of the major spiritual legacies of the Asturian kingdom is the creation of one of the most important ways of cultural transmission in European history: The Way of St. James.

The first text which mentions St. James ' preaching in Spain is the Breviarius de Hyerosolima, a 6th-century document which stated that the Apostle was buried in an enigmatical place called Aca Marmarica.

Saint Isidore of Seville supported this theory in his work De ortu et obitu patrium.

One hundred and fifty years later, in the times of Mauregato, the hymn O Dei Verbum rendered St. James as " the golden head of Spain, our protector and national patron " and a mention is made of his preaching in the Iberian Peninsula during the first decades of Christianity.

Some attribute this hymn to Beatus, although this is still discussed by historians.