Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar
41°39′25″N 0°52′42″W / 41.65694°N 0.87833°W
- See Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar (Buenos Aires)for the church in Buenos Aires
Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar | |
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Catedral-Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Pilar | |
Schism Christian Church) | |
Location | |
Location | Zaragoza, Spain |
Architecture | |
Style | |
Groundbreaking | 1681 |
Completed | 1961 |
Type | Non-movable |
Criteria | Monument |
Designated | 22 June 1904 |
Reference no. | RI-51-0000083 |
The Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar (
Local traditions take the history of this basilica to the
Many of the kings of Spain, many other foreign rulers and saints have paid their devotion before this statue of Mary. Saint
History
Apparition of Pilar
According to ancient local tradition, soon after the
First chapel
About a year after the apparition, James is believed to have had a small chapel built in Mary's honor, the first church ever dedicated to her. After James returned to Jerusalem, he was executed by
Expansions
Romanesque church
Numerous churches have been built upon this site through the years. The tiny chapel built by Saint James later gave way to a basilica-like enclosure during
Gothic church
The Romanesque church was damaged by fire in 1434, and reconstruction began in the Mudéjar Gothic style.
Current church
The present spacious church in
During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 three bombs were dropped on the church but none of them exploded.[3] Two of them are still on show in the basilica.
Notable choirmasters include the Baroque composer Joseph Ruiz Samaniego.
Pillar and the image
The statue is wooden and 39 cm tall and rests on a column of jasper. The tradition of the shrine of El Pilar, as given by Our Lady in an apparition to Sister
Layout
The building, which can be seen from the nearby
The chapels within the basilica include:
- Chapel of the Rosary
- Chapel of Joachim
- Chapel of Saint Lawrence (Lorenzo)
- Chapel of Saint Pedro de Arbués
- Chapel of Saint Braulio
- Chapel of Saint Anthony
- Chapel of Saint Joseph
- Chapel of Saint Anna
- Chapel of Saint John
Organ and music
The first organ was built in 1463 by Enrique de Colonia. In 1537, Martín de Córdoba built another organ with the intent to compete with the one at the La Seo.
Guillermo de Lupe and his son Gaudioso restructured the larger organ between 1595 and 1602; he had done the same for an organ in the Cathedral of the Savior of Zaragoza in 1577.
In 1657, there were several organs in the church, of many sizes and offering many possibilities. As a result, the musical activity reached a peak in the Spanish Golden Age; however, it began to decline toward the end of the 19th century.
In the Middle Ages, a minstrel accompanied singers with a dulcian. Polyphony in the Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar was first documented in the mid-17th century, played by a "tenor" and a "contrabajón". In the late 1600s, an orchestra composed of minstrels agreed to work for the Church of Santa María la Mayor, the predecessor of the cathedral-basilica.
El Pilar and Spanish identity
The feast of Our Lady of the Pillar, celebrating the first apparition of
It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1904.[citation needed]
See also
- Marian apparitions
- Roman Catholic Marian churches
- 12 Treasures of Spain
- List of Bien de Interés Cultural in the Province of Zaragoza
References
- ^ Our Lady of the Pillar Archived 2007-10-15 at the Wayback Machine on Catholic-forums.
- ^ a b c d Fr. Tommy Lane Homily during a pilgrimage to Zaragoza, Spain on Bible, Prayer, Homily resources website.
- ^ a b c "NUESTRA SEÑORA DEL PILAR (OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR)". Archived from the original on 2017-11-20. Retrieved 2007-10-25.
- ^ a b c d Our Lady of the Pillar on The work of God website on various apparitions of Mary.
- ^ a b c Zsolt Aradi The Virgen Del Pilar on Catholic culture.
- ^ a b c d Nuestra Señora Del Pilar on Catholic encylopedeia.
- ^ City of God, The Coronation, Book One, Part III, Book VII, Chapter XVI, Paragraph 352, Page 325. ISBN 978-0895558251
- ^ ISBN 84-378-1301-8
- ^ Ibn Bajja, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- ^ a b ""Nuestra Señora del Pilar Basilica", Turespaña". Archived from the original on 2018-05-25. Retrieved 2018-06-07.
- ^ Francisco Herrera (el Mozo, the Younger) in Catholic Encyclopedia.
- ISBN 978-1-58243-307-3
- ANSÓN NAVARRO, Arturo y Belén Boloqui Larraya, «Zaragoza Barroca», en ISBN 978-84-7820-948-4.
- «El Pilar» Archived 2018-08-23 at the Wayback Machine, Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa (en línea). [Consulta:22-7-2008]
- NOUGUÉS SECALL, Mariano, Historia crítica y apologética de la Virgen nuestra señora del Pilar de Zaragoza y de su templo y tabernáculo desde el siglo I hasta nuestros días, Madrid, Alejandro Gómez Fuentenebro, 1862.
- ORTIZ ALBERO, Miguel Ángel, Julián Pelegrín Campo y María Pilar Rivero Gracia, El Pilar desconocido, Zaragoza, Heraldo de Aragón, 2006, pág. 13.—D. L. Z-2597-06. OCLC 433533535
- RINCÓN GARCÍA, Wifredo, El Pilar de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Everest, 2000. ISBN 84-241-0044-1.
- RISCO, Manuel, España Sagrada, t. XXX. Contiene el estado antiguo de la Santa Iglesia de Zaragoza [...] y una colección de las epístolas de San Braulio [...], Madrid, Antonio de Sancha, 1775.