Our Lady of Remedies

Marian vocation of Yaiza (Lanzarote)

Our Lady of Remedies es la titular de la parish church of Yaiza (Lanzarote), main temple of the municipality. The village of Yaiza is one of the historical cores of the island, with parish temple already in the Modern Age.

Main data

Origin and history

Our Lady of Remedies es la titular de la parish church of Yaiza (Lanzarote), main temple of the municipality. The village of Yaiza is one of the historical cores of the island, with parish temple already in the Modern Age.

It is possible to place the origin of the parish in the context of the repopulation and the parish expansion of the island between the 16th and 18th centuriesas with other Canary parishes; however, this is only a general inference and not a documented foundational narrative for Yaiza, so the concrete data is not in the sources consulted.

The image and the sanctuary

The temple is the Parish Church of Our Lady of Remediesin the village of Yaiza, clearly identifiable in the parish listings and guides of the diocese of the Canary Islands. The detailed description of the image (author, time, materials) does not consist of the sources consulted, which are spooky as to this specific advocation.

Sponsorship and coronation

She is a patron of the parish and the town of Yaiza. There is no recognition as an island patron or a canonical coronation of the image in the sources consulted.

Party and devotion

The exact date of the patronal party in the open sources consulted is not clear. In many places in Spain under this title the celebration is usually placed towards the September 8 or near dates, but for Yaiza it is not verifiable. There is also no well-documented anecdote or devotional account linked to this image.

Link to the Rosary

There is no Rosary fellowship or specific rosarian practice associated with this image in the sources consulted. It is reasonable to assume that the Rosary is praying in the parish, as in any Catholic community. In addition, under the title of the Remedies Mary is invoked as assistance in the needs, and the Rosary is precisely the confident prayer with which the Christian people come to the Mother to achieve remedy in their tribulations.