Mare de Déu de les Injúries de Callosa d’en Sarrià

Advocación mariana de Callosa d’en Sarrià (Comunitat Valenciana)

La Mare de Déu de les Injúries (Nuestra Señora de las Injurias) es la patrona de Callosa d’en Sarrià, en La Marina Baixa. Su historia es una de las más ricas y documentadas de toda la provincia de Alicante, con más de setecientos años de devoción ininterrumpida. El origen documentado se remonta a 1290when Bernat de Sarrià, lord of Callosa, ordered to build a chapel for an image of the Virgin under the title of the Conception. In 1582Berber pirates desecrated the image and threw it into a ravine. The neighbors hid it to preserve it for 137 years. In 1719, some masons that did works in the ravine place found the image between rubble. The finding was considered miraculous and from then on the advocation of les Injúriesin memory of the desecration of 1582. This change of advocation is reflected in ecclesiastical and local documentation of the time. In 1855during an epidemic of cholera, a solemn request was made; according to notariously collected testimonies, the advance of cholera was stopped at the end of Callosa, a fact attributed to the intercession of the patron.

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Origin and history

La Mare de Déu de les Injúries (Nuestra Señora de las Injurias) es la patrona de Callosa d’en Sarrià, en La Marina Baixa. Su historia es una de las más ricas y documentadas de toda la provincia de Alicante, con más de setecientos años de devoción ininterrumpida. El origen documentado se remonta a 1290when Bernat de Sarrià, lord of Callosa, ordered to build a chapel for an image of the Virgin under the title of the Conception. In 1582Berber pirates desecrated the image and threw it into a ravine. The neighbors hid it to preserve it for 137 years. In 1719, some masons that did works in the ravine place found the image between rubble. The finding was considered miraculous and from then on the advocation of les Injúriesin memory of the desecration of 1582. This change of advocation is reflected in ecclesiastical and local documentation of the time. In 1855during an epidemic of cholera, a solemn request was made; according to notariously collected testimonies, the advance of cholera was stopped at the end of Callosa, a fact attributed to the intercession of the patron.

Image and sanctuary

La imagen se venera en la ermita de Nuestra Señora de las Injurias de Callosa d’en Sarrià, referencia espiritual de La Marina Baixa. Es la única advocación de La Marina Baixa con coronación canónica confirmada además de la Virgen del Sufragio de Benidorm.

Canonical coronation: 10 October 1954.

Sponsorship and coronation

Patrona de Callosa d’en Sarrià. Canonically crowned on October 10, 1954.

Party and devotion

The employers' parties are held at first weekend of Septemberwith a solemn procession, major mass and celebrations in honor of the patron.

Link to the Rosary

The devotion to the Mare de Déu de les Injúries has always been linked to the Rosary, especially in the painful mysteries that remember the injuries suffered by Mary.