The Virgin of Pilar (litt. of the pillar )

Catholic “Appearance” of Marie, Holy owner of the Hispanité, venerated in the Basilica éponyme of Saragossa.

According to the tradition, this appearance is described for the first time at the 13th century in the codex of Moralia in Job of Gregoire Large the . The appearance of the Virgin Mary in Saragossa would have occurred the January 2nd year 39, whereas she lived with the apostle Jean with Éphèse. In this codex , which is preserved in the files pilarists , one names for the first time the virgin with name “del Pilar”. The protagonist of this event was the apostle Jacques the Groin, at the time of his Prédication in the Hispania Citerior, which would have decided of its return in front of the failure of sound Prosélitisme near the pagan . Raised on column, which one says that it would support the tillered of the Virgin, it asked the apostle to set up a temple.

The worship of the Virgin del Pilar

The January 2nd, one celebrates the arrival of the Virgin, the October 12th, which is also the Jour of Hispanité is the feastday of Pilar, and the May 20th is the festival of canonical crowning.

Miracles

One allots to the Virgen del Pilar various miracles, inter alia, the cure of Blanche of Navarre, which one believed dead.