![]() #Crema quintaesencia de santa maria de guadalupe skinIn trying to take the skin and make the sign of the cross on the chest, at the time the Virgin appeared to him and told him,for the task of digging in the same place to find her image and then build a hermitage that eventually became Monastery and Sanctuary. He walked several days looking for a lost cow and find her dead. The image was moved from Rome to Seville, because the pope gave it to the archbishop of the city of Seville, San Leandro, whose main church began to be venerated until the beginning of the Arab invasion (711).Īround the year 714 fleeing the invasion a few clerics fleeing Seville took theimage and some relics of saints, hiding it on the banks of the Guadalupe River near the southern foothills of the Sierra de Altamira, where they was found by a shepherd named Gil Lamb. Pope becomes the maindevotee and the first architect of expansion of veneration in Rome. Legend has it that Saint Luke died, the image was buried next to him and moved with his remains from Achaia (Asia Minor) to Constantinople in the fourth century.įrom there the Cardinal Gregorio took it to Rome (582), being elected pope in 590 under the name of Gregory the Great. Some ancient manuscripts place the origin of the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe in the first century of Christianity and its author to the very Saint Luke, but the image venerated in this place is a Romanesque carving, cedar from the twelfth century. The existence of this monastery and Sanctuary is closely linked to the origin of the image of Santa Maria de Guadalupe, and so is this the reason for its construction and its expansion worldwide. ![]() See top 15 Catholic shrines around the world ![]() See more European Catholic Shrines and pilgrimages See more Catholic shrines and Basilicas in Spain. Its famous statue of the Virgin became a powerful symbol of the Christianization of much of the New World. It symbolizes two significant events in world history that occurred in 1492: the Reconquest of the Iberian peninsula by the Catholic Kings and Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the Americas. ![]() Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Guadalupe The monastery is an outstanding repository of four centuries of Spanish religious architecture. ![]()
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