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After a huge hurricane hit this island in 1542, the image was moved to El Valle del Espíritu Santo in Margarita Island whereby the virgin was rename as Virgin of the Valley. [ 3 ] In Caracas there is also a very beautiful image of Virgen del Valle which is a centenary image and that it is in "Iglesia Nuestra Señora del Valle" located in Vista ...
Its name is in honor of the patron saint of the town and the Venezuelan Navy: the Virgen del Valle. [4] After being founded the church San Nicolás de Bari, it was declared Basilica of Nueva Esparta state on September 8, 1955, so that from that date its festivities are held, beginning with the descent of the Virgin on 8 September each year, is ...
Lafone Quevedo Disk. La Plata Museum, display case of La Aguada culture. In 1888, he began writing Historia de la Virgen del Valle, as the Virgin of the Valley was the patron saint of the city of San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca. He had a profound religious faith, which he professed until his last days.
Historia de Nuestra Señora de San Juan de los Lagos y del culto de esta milagrosa imagen. 2nd edition. Guadalajara 1944. Turner, Kay F. "The Cultural Semiotics of Religious Icons: La virgen de san Juan de los Lagos," Semiotica 47(1983) 317–361.
The Rev. Jose Maria Azpiazu, O.M.I., pastor of the parish of St. John the Baptist in San Juan, began fostering a devotion to Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos after he was made pastor in 1949. He commissioned an artist in Guadalajara, Mexico, to reproduce the statue of the Virgin that was venerated at San Juan de los Lagos. [1]
The shrine is located in southern Colombia and has been a tourism and pilgrimage destination since the eighteenth century. The Spanish Franciscan Juan de Santa Gertrudis (1724–1799) mentions the sanctuary in Book III, Part 2, of his four-volume chronicle of his 1756–62 journey in the south portion of the Kingdom of New Granada (titled "Wonders of Nature").
Apart from these, there are other in the Canaries that are more regional, among which the following are noteworthy: The Bajada de la Virgen del Pino of El Paso on La Palma every three years, and every five years they celebrate several on other islands, such as the Bajada de la Virgen de los Reyes in Valle Gran Rey and the Our Lady of Mount Carmel of Vallehermoso both in La Gomera, and in ...
La secuencia Tlaxcalteca. Origenes del culto a Nuestra Senora de Ocotlan. Mexico City: INAH, 2000. Nava Rodriguez, Luis. Historia de Nuestra Senora de Ocotlan. 2nd edition. Tlaxcala: Editoria de periodicos "La Prensa" 1975.---. Historia de Nuestra Senora de Ocotlan. Revised and expanded edition. Tlaxcala: Editoria de periodicos "La Prensa" 1983.