XIV-XVII Centuries XX The Moorish temple as the View of Zaragoza in 1647 by Juan Bautista Martinez del Mazo. a Principal and Co-Founder of Ogden CAP Properties, LLC, a property management/development company is Connie Milstein is an active member on a number of Boards, including the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Refugees International, UN Watch, The Seton hall University School of Diplomacy, the New York City Parks Foundation, the New York City Opera, and the American Hospital of Paris, where the nursing services have been named in her honor In 1318 a document of John XXII refers to Santa Maria Maggiore in Zaragoza as "built by Santiago in 40" and also states that the temple is the oldest in Spain. However, it incurs a common mistake: pointing to the collegiate church was built in 40 when its construction dates from several centuries later. However this allows you to meet the canons of Sainte Chapelle and the Gothic church were part of a single set. According to contemporary sources, Queen Blanche of Navarre, wife of John II the Great, experienced a healing miracle attributed to Our Lady of Pilar and thanks went to the sanctuary in July 1434. Between 1434 and 1435 originated in the sacristy of the cloister a fire that swept through several jewelry and alabaster altarpiece of the church. It is almost unanimously embraced the theory that the chapel of the Virgin and the Holy Pillar of the incident were unharmed.There are indications that the fire has reached the collegiate Gothic. The picture today is venerated the Virgin of Pilar, drafted in a late Gothic sculptor Daroca, most likely was a gift from the White Queen Archbishop Dalmau de Mur. In this century continued to Pillar concessions, granted by King John II and his son Ferdinand II. The faithful and the nobility of Aragon collaborated in the works to restore the damage from the fire. The walls were covered with reliefs depicting the apparition of the Virgin to Santiago. Also undertaken the construction of a new altarpiece, "alabaster, the most clear and transparent that I've seen where there are some figures in the round well built, placed within their niches and semblaje and the rest of the altarpiece made with great beauty. Accompanying all this other moldings and small alabaster figures, which are in the rest of the wall from one side to another. " Details of the Mudejar church in 1563 by Antonio de las Vi as.Archbishop Alonso de Aragon, son of Ferdinand, was responsible for transforming the Gothic church and he is the magnificent altarpiece carved by Damian Forment (1512-1518). In the sixteenth century the House of Austria came to rule in Spain and continued the tradition of the Aragonese dynasty to grant privileges and protections to the shrine of Pilar. In 1530 Clement VII's decision to exceed the episcopal jurisdiction of the Pillar generated an internal conflict in the local archbishop. 57 Seo a lawsuit brought by the cathedral that was resolved until 1676, when Clement X merged the chapters of Seo and the Pillar, which gave rise to the Metropolitan Council of Zaragoza. Well into the sixteenth century church Gothic undergoes its transformation to the Moorish style.Events occur in this century of concern to the temple as the construction of a star-ribbed vault full of flaming shiny gold finials (1504-1515), like those that adorned the Aljafer a Palace. Damian Forment was hired in 1509 to build a new Gothic altarpiece, which construction began in 1510 by cutting the previous tableau. Built between 1512 and 1518, the altarpiece is considered one of the most successful works of Renaissance sculpture in Aragon. Altarpiece of the Assumption, built by Forment. There were also repairs to the Sainte Chapelle, where they changed the gate of the sanctuary by the Escalante Pedro master locksmith, he created a fence railing and silver tinned-like scallops topped with gold. He had the same height as the nave.The iron gate that closed off the entrance to the chapel of the Virgin was replaced in 1644 by Prince Baltasar Carlos de Austria. Obray Esteban, Juan de Moreto and Nicolas Lobato, built the church choir between 1542 and 1548. The chairs in three rows of stalls in the form of tier overlapping and arranged in semicircular work has inlaid with boxwood inlay yellow. Of the 138 original stalls there are only 124, as some have been relocated to the sanctuary of the altar. The chairs of the Pillar is much bigger than most cathedrals of Spain. is housed in the baroque basilica today as it was relocated in 1716. On March 29, 1640 incident occurred Calanda known as Miracle, as the lame Miguel Pellicer said that through the intercession of the Virgen del Pilar was restored to his right leg he had lost in an accident.The fact was very important in the whole kingdom, and April 27, 1641 is ruled as a miracle. The devotion to Our Lady of Pilar had spread throughout Spain, and in 1678 the Viceroy Pedro Antonio de Aragon Cortes called on behalf of King Charles II, to declare the Virgin as the patron saint of Aragon. Several baroque temples were built in the seventeenth century in Zaragoza.