The parish in Ilača is mentioned for the first time in 1612. In 1865 just a few hundred meters from the parish church, in the middle of the road for the vehicular traffic, appeared a spring of water. Petar Lazin, native of IlaËa, noticed the spring, and Đuka Ambrušević from that lane saw in his sleep the Lady with a white crown on her head, holding child Jesus in her left hand.The Lady ordered him to put a fence around the found spring of water, because it was hers, and that even the cattle cannot come near it. He fenced in the lit-tle water-well to which people came with respect and called it, for its miraculous appearances, ”The Lady's Water”. What is Lurd for France, that is Ilača to Syrmia, say the writers on Mary's sanctuaries. The Lady appeared in Lurd in 1858 where the miraculous spring water appeared, anf the same happened in Ilača seven years later. In Lurd sick people are cured and healed, and the same things happen in Ilača, which can be supported by many statements from pilgrims. Nowhere else where the Lady appeared, apart from Lurd and Ilača, has the spring water miraculously appeared. In the same year of the appearance, on July 17, there was a statue of the Mother of God placed near the spring, and in 1867 started the building of the church. It was consecrated in 1870. Jugurčić, a potter from Vukovar, who restored his sight and health of eyes on the Lady's Water, donated the painting of the Lady of IlaËa to the new church. Pilgrims from Syrmia and Slavonia come to this sanctuary from the begining. The main church holiday is on Assumption, and pilgrimage is held on other Mary's holidays, too but many chance travellers come to the Lady's Water throught the year.The church of the Lady of IlaËa was seriously damaged in 1991, but love to the Lady of IlaËa gave her back the old brightness and a nice white statue of the Lady on the miraculous spring. Around the church there is a liturgy space for pilgrimage celebrations, confessionals, the Way of the Cross, roofed space for pilgrims that spend the night in prayer, and a house for priests that are on service to pilgrims.