Our Lady of Monsalud

Cistercian Monastery of Corcles (Sacedon, Guadalajara)

In the Cistercian monastery of Santa Maria de Monsalud, in Corcoles, a Marian image was venerated for centuries, with a healer, with a unique appeal against the anger and the evils of the body and soul.

Origin and history

The monastery of Santa María de Monsalud, founded in the second half of the 12th century, was one of the most important Cistercian cenobies of the medieval Castile, active until the 19th century; its Roman-Cistercian ensemble is Good of Cultural Interest. In it was developed devotion to the image of the Virgin of Monsalud, who made the place a center of pilgrimage.

The most characteristic feature of Our Lady of Monhealth is her fame as a healing Virgin, especially invoked against anger, the afflictions of the heart, the endemonians and the evil eye; a spirituality oriented to the integral health of the body and the soul, collected in ancient "stories of miracles."

Civil patronage, self-celebration and canonical coronation: they are not recorded in the sources.