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The Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar in Zaragoza is a major Baroque church of Spain. According to tradition, this is the first Marian shrine of Christianity, since it is preserved and venerated pillar-indeed, a column of jasper, which was released by the Virgin Mary who, still living in Jerusalem, it would have appeared in the flesh the apostle Santiago on January 2 of year 40. No documentary evidence as recorded in the tradition, details of which date from 1297, in a bull of Pope Boniface VIII 1299-and-a statement of Sworn-Zaragoza, where for the first time the title of "Santa Maria del attested Pilar ', after the launch in 1293 of bishop Hugo Mataplana rehabilitation of the building that threatened ruin, thanks to donations prompted by the aforementioned papal bull.


Here I leave a video of panoramic cadetral :