Pico Sacro

A key site in Sacred Tradition is mount Illicinus, now known as Pico Sacro.

The body of the Apostle arrived in Galicia during the reign of the legendary Queen Lupa. She decided to trick those who had brought the body by offering them some tame oxen, which she kept on a hill, to help them move it to the tomb. On mount Illicinus, they found an enormous dragon waiting for them, which they defeated by making the sign of the cross.

The oxen that the queen had given them were, in fact, wild bulls that they managed to tame to help them return to Lupa's palace. Astonished, the queen converted to Christianity and destroyed all the pagan idols and temples, building the Apostle's tomb where they had stood.