Marian devotion

Our Lady of Remedies

Marian title of Colmenar Viejo (Community of Madrid)

Old Hood Pattern. The hermitage was founded in 1630 and the image was brought to the municipality in 1682; in 1753 works were carried out to expand the hermitage. The image was hidden during the Civil War (1940-1942). Their parties are held on the last Sunday of August.

Main data

Place: Colmenar Viejo (Community of Madrid, Spain)
Canon coronation: 2001

Origin and history

Old Hood Pattern. The hermitage was founded in 1630 and the image was brought to the municipality in 1682; in 1753 works were carried out to expand the hermitage. The image was hidden during the Civil War (1940-1942). Their parties are held on the last Sunday of August.

The image and the sanctuary

Image venerated in the parish or main hermitage of Colmenar Viejo, in the region of the northern metropolitan area (Community of Madrid).

Sponsorship and coronation

Old Hood Pattern. Canonical coronation on 24 June 2001, chaired by the auxiliary bishop of Madrid Vicente Martín Muñoz.

Party and devotion

Last Sunday of August.

Link to the Rosary

The sources consulted do not show a specific or unique link between this devotion and the Rosary.

A flower for the Virgin

It offers a simple prayer to this advocation. Pray a Hail Mary for Spain and for the peace of the world.

Pray Hail Mary
Sources: tradition of the sanctuary, diocesan information and Wikipedia in Spanish. The distinction between popular piety and documented ecclesial history is specific to this fact sheet; extraordinary accounts are presented as devotion and not as doctrinal pronunciation.

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