Our Lady of Inodejo

Patrona de Las Fraguas · Serra de Inodejo (Soria)

In the saw of Inodejo, a serrano sanctuary keeps a medieval size of the Virgin, the center of romaneries from all over the region; tradition links to an apparition on an oak to a manco pastoralist, to which the Virgin returned her hand.

Origin and history

The image of Our Lady of Inodejo is a wooden, sedent, medieval style, dating back to the 13th century; the Virgin appears offering her breast to the Child, in a very maternal iconography. The present sanctuary was raised about 1600, and the oldest documentary reference preserved is 1621, in the archive of the convent of Santa Clara de Soria, where it is indicated that the clarisas first founded their convent in Inodejo. Since ancient times it is the center of local romanias, with great influx in the holidays of the Trinity and September.

The popular tradition attributes the origin of the sanctuary to an apparition of the Virgin on an oak to a herdsman of the Fraguas, a one-hand manco, to whom the Virgin miraculously returns it. According to legend, the Virgin asks for a temple to be built; several peoples dispute the honor, and from the phrase attributed to the Virgin "what if I do not leave?" the name "Inodejo" would be popularly explained. Toponymic studies relate it, on the other hand, to a Basque-Iberian origin linked to storms, which led to venerating it as a protector against them.

Canonical coronation: not found in the sources.