And so it begins, our 4th Camino. Getting ready to drive to JFK for a 10 pm fight to Madrid. We arrive tomorrow in the morning, and we have to get to Atocha for our train to Zaragoza. We start in Zaragoza because it was here that the Virgin Mary appeared to Saint James when he was struggling with his ministry in Iberia. This was the very first Marian apparition and different from all others as Mary was still alive. She asked St James to build her a church and to return to Jerusalem. He did build a Church which would grow into what is now known as the Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar. Afterwards he returned to Jerusalem and was the first Apostle to be martyred and thus began his journey to Santiago.Leia mais