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Christian feast day: Our Lady of the Pillar (Fiestas del Pilar)
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Our Lady of the Pillar
Title of the Virgin Mary
Our Lady of the Pillar is the name given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the context of the traditional belief that Mary, while living in Jerusalem, supernaturally appeared to the Apostle James the Greater in AD 40 while he was preaching in what is now Spain. Those who adhere to…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Fiestas del Pilar
Annual festival celebrated in the city of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
The Fiestas del Pilar are an annual festival celebrated in the city of Zaragoza, Aragon, in honour of the patron saint of the city, the Virgen del Pilar. The week long festival takes place every year, usually, beginning the weekend of or before 12 October, and lasts until the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)