Tradition holds, Mary appeared to St. James in A.D. 40 to encourage him during an especially difficult Mission to the pagans. She appeared with The Child Jesus standing on a pillar and asked St. James and several of his disciples to build a church on that spot. She promised it would stand until the end of time. The church of Our Lady of the Pillar in Zaragoza still stands to this day. It even had three bombs dropped on it during the Spanish Civil War and none of them exploded.