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357. The vision of the most blessed Mary having
faded away, saint James called his disciples, who were
absorbed in the music and in wonder at the brightness,
though they did not hear or see anything else. Their
great teacher revealed to them as much as was calculated
to animate them toward helping to build the temple, with
which he had been commissioned; and, with the assist
ance of the holy angels, before he left Saragossa, com
pleted the little chapel, in which now the image and
the column are still preserved. Afterwards the Catho
lics erected the sumptuous temple and whatever else sur
rounds and adorns that celebrated sanctuary. The
evangelist saint John at the time knew nothing of this
excursion of the heavenly Mother to Spain, nor did
She tell him about it; for these privileges and favors
did not concern the faith of the universal Church,
wherefore she kept the secret of them to Herself. Other
greater ones however She made known to saint John
and the other Evangelists, because they were necessary
for the common instruction and faith of the Christians.
But when saint James arrived from Spain and saw his
brother John in Jerusalem, He related what had hap
He
pened to him in his preaching-tours through Spain.
told him also of the two visions of the most blessed
Mary and of what had happened in Saragossa in con
nection with the temple he had erected in that city.
Through the Evangelist many of the other Apostles and
disciples learnt of this miracle, for he afterwards told
them of it in Jerusalem in order to confirm them in their
faith and devotion to the Mistress of heaven and awaken
their confidence in her protection. Hence, those that
knew of these favors to saint James, from that time
called upon Her in their labors and necessities; and the
loving Mother helped some of them often, and all of
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