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This article is dedicated to Isidore, bishop of Seville, a Latin Father of the Church and a Christian writer of the late VI and early VII century. The article outlines his biography and tells about his literary heritage. The article is primarily focussed on the treatise De ecclesiasticis officiis, a kind of medieval encyclopaedia of Christian worship. Despite the fact that Isidore of Seville wrote this essay in his younger years, De ecclesiasticis officiis is one of the most important works of this author. It is unique among medieval sources in containing important information about the divine service in the territory of the Iberian Peninsula in the early Middle Ages. The article also describes the events associated with the appearance of this work, as well as discusses its general characteristics, contents and structure. The emphasis is being placed on those chapters of De ecclesiasticis officiis that are directly related to the liturgical tradition of the Spanish Church and testify to its ancient rites, primarily of the Baptism and the Eucharist.

Antonio López Ferreiro en su Historia de la SAM Iglesia de Santiago reflexionaba acerca de un posible lugar de enterramiento de Diego Gelmírez, primer arzobispo de la sede, ubicándolo en una de las esquinas del claustro catedralicio compostelano: la contigua al templo. Años después él mismo fijó ahí su última morada pero en el piso superior. El presente artículo recorre la senda que sus palabras han marcado sobre el análisis de tres ámbitos: las consideraciones historiográficas; los datos textuales y documentales; y los datos materiales y arqueológicos. Si bien no he localizado referencias directas hemos podido profundizar en datos indirectos, especialmente a partir de la contextualización con otros casos similares en sedes como Silos, Urgell u Oviedo, de las disposiciones conciliares altomedievales, y de los testimonios acerca de la celebración de aniversarios en época medieval, siguiendo la pista al aniversario que por él se celebraba en 1261. Todo conduce a la actual antesacristía y sala antecedente a los vestuarios capitulares. Sobre esta base se presentan además los resultados de una prospección con georradar realizada en 2007 que confirma la existencia de restos en el subsuelo de este segmento, añadiendo nuevas posibilidades a las palabras ferreirianas.
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Abstract: Antonio López Ferreiro in his Historia de la SAM Iglesia de Santiago reflected about the possible burial place of Diego Gelmírez, first archbishop of the see, placing him in one of the corners of the cloister of Compostela, the one next to the temple. Years later he was buried there but on the top floor. This article traces the path that his words have pointed on the analysis of three spaces: considerations of the historiography; the textual and documentary data; and the material and archaeological data. Although we have not located direct references, we have been able to deep into indirect data, especially from the contextualization with other similar cases in places such as Silos, Urgell or Oviedo, based on the medieval dispositions of the councils, and testimonies about the celebration of anniversaries in medieval times, following the track to the anniversary that was celebrated by him in 1261. Everything leads to the current ante-sacristy and antecedent hall to the chapter locker room. On this basis, the results of a radar exploration developed in 2007 are also presented here, confirming the existence of remnants in the subsoil of this segment and adding new possibilities to the Ferreirian words.