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Zaragoza

Basilica on the Ebro
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Tradition holds that the Virgin appeared to St James here in AD 40 standing on a pillar — the only apparition said to have occurred during her lifetime — and the basilica of El Pilar was built over it. Two bombs fell through the roof during the Civil War and failed to explode; they are displayed on the wall where they landed.

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