Day of the Coming of the Virgin Mary to Saragossa

The 2nd of January of each year begins in the Basilica del Pilar with a Eucharistic Vigil, usually presided over by the Archbishop of Zaragoza, which commemorates the Coming of the Virgin to this bimillenary city.

Some legends and traditions come to acquire such force that everything that surrounds them becomes true and tangible for the society that believes in them and their historicity passes to a second plane, because the sociological phenomenon of belief in the tradition achieves more value.

In this sense, everything related to the tradition of the Coming of the Virgin to Saragossa must be considered tangible, since it reflects exactly what the people of Saragossa and European Christianity have known since the Middle Ages as the 'Pilarist tradition', whose central nucleus is the miraculous coming of Mary, still alive, to encourage the apostle James in his unfruitful preaching.