Marian devotion
Santa María de Salas
Marian Invocation of Huesca (Aragon)
Santa María de Salas is an ancient and famous Marian advocation venerated on the outskirts of Huesca, in the area of Salas. His sanctuary reached great fame in the Middle Ages as a center of pilgrimage, to the point of being among the great Marian sanctuaries of the kingdom of Aragon and being the subject of stories of miracles in medieval literature. Devotion has been documented since medieval times, which places it among the oldest in the region; however, it is appropriate to distinguish the miraculous accounts of tradition from the strictly documented.
Main data
Origin and history
Santa María de Salas is an ancient and famous Marian advocation venerated on the outskirts of Huesca, in the area of Salas. His sanctuary reached great fame in the Middle Ages as a center of pilgrimage, to the point of being among the great Marian sanctuaries of the kingdom of Aragon and being the subject of stories of miracles in medieval literature. Devotion has been documented since medieval times, which places it among the oldest in the region; however, it is appropriate to distinguish the miraculous accounts of tradition from the strictly documented.
The image and the sanctuary
The image is venerated in the Sanctuary of Santa María de Salas, in the term Huesca, in the area of Salas on the outskirts of the city. The temple, of medieval root, was a prominent place of pilgrimage whose fame transcended the limits of the kingdom of Aragon in the Middle Ages.
Sponsorship and coronation
On a formal patronage and the exact date of a canonical coronation there is no verifiable data in the sources consulted; what is documented is its old and remarkable prestige as a Marian sanctuary.
Party and devotion
The exact date of your main party is not fully secure in the sources consulted. The devotion to Santa Maria de Salas, famous in the Middle Ages for the miracles attributed to her, lives in Huesca as one of its historical Marian places.
Link to the Rosary
The sources consulted do not show a specific link between this devotion and the Rosary.
A flower for the Virgin
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