Marian devotion
Our Lady of the Angustias
Los Llanos de Aridane (La Palma) · Sanctuary of the Barrio de las Angustias
On the island of La Palmain the deep Barranco de las Angustias, it venerates Our Lady of the Angustias, a 16th-century Flemish Piedad and one of the most beloved Marian images of the island. It was canonically crowned in 2013.
Main data
History and origin
The image, of Flemish origin and dated around 1515-1522, he arrived on the island probably by management of the market Jácome de Monteverde. He represents the Virgin by holding the lay body of Christ. Tradition Reminds that the Jesuit Ignacio de Azevedo - Martir Camino de Brasil - would have celebrated one of his last misas there; his relics accompany the procession.
The party
Su festividad es el August 15, with Romeria, procession to Calvary and "the eighth" eight days later. She is an "honorary mayor" of Los Llanos de Aridane.
The canonical coronation
It was canonically crowned the 14 April 2013 by Bishop Bernardo Álvarez Afonso, Bishop of Tenerife. It was the second crowned image in La Palma - after the Virgin of the Snow (1930) - and the first painful crowned in the Nivariense Diocese.
Favors and popular devotion
La Palma entrusts to its Virgin of the Angustias the needs of the island and thanks it for the favors kept in the devout memory of its people, without this being a formal ecclesiastical declaration.
Mary by the dead Son
The Mercy shows us the Mother who receives in her lap the body of Christ down from the Cross, the supreme image of pain and faith. She goes with him. Holy Rosarywith whom Mary always leads us to her Son.
A flower for the Virgin
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